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Bloody Skies: XV Fighter Command Against All Odds

Bloody Skies: XV Fighter Command Against All Odds

Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey

Hardcover

Air CombatArmed Forces

Publisher Price: $32.00

ISBN10: 1472865626
ISBN13: 9781472865625
Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
Published: Mar 10 2026
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.35 Width: 5.99 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

This book details the operations of the USAAF's overlooked XV Fighter Command that protected the bombers during the campaign against the Romanian oil fields in World War II.

Formed in the fall of 1943, the Fifteenth Air Force was popularly known as the The Forgotten Fifteenth, as its achievements were overshadowed by more glamorous exploits of the Eighth Air Force in the air war over Germany. Nevertheless, the Fifteenth's contribution to Allied victory was crucial, and a vital part of that was the role played by the escorting fighter groups from the XV Fighter Command who protected the B-17s and B-24s from the Luftwaffe in the skies over Romania.

In this new history of the campaign, renowned aviation historian Tom Cleaver tells the story of the Fifteenth's air war through first-person accounts of the fighter pilots of the Fifteenth Fighter Command, including such famous units as the Red Tails - the Tuskegee Airmen - the 82nd Fighter Group and the 325th's Checkertail Clan, and with his ability to place wartime events in their greater context.

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