Bloody Skies
XV Fighter Command Against all Odds
$44.46
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
6 July 2026
Summary
Filled with personal accounts of the action, this book details the operations of the USAAF’s 15th Air Force during the strategic bombing campaign against the Romanian oil fields at Ploesti during World War II.
Formed in fall of 1943 from the strategic bomber forces of the Ninth and Twelfth Air Forces that saw action in North Africa and Sicily, the Fifteenth Air Force was presented to Air Force high command as a strategic force that would take advantage of the better w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472865625 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472865626 |
| Author: | Thomas McKelvey Cleaver |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Osprey Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 6 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 540g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 162mm x 232mm |
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Critics Review
Tom Cleaver’s account of the Fifteenth Air Force in its effort to disrupt the Luftwaffe’s access to oil supplies is an epic tale… It brings to life the thrills, dangers, and, ultimately, a tsunami of action worthy of Twelve O’Clock High. * Captain Roy Cash Jr., USN (Ret.) *
Bloody Skies expertly tells the story of the Fifteenth Air Force, known as ‘The Forgotten Fifteenth’ due to its overshadowed role in the Mediterranean Theater. Thomas Cleaver is a master storyteller with the superb knack of laying out a strategic vision on one page and bringing to life the exhilaration and terror of air combat on the next. * James R. Benn, author of A Bitter Wind and other Billy Boyle World War II Mysteries *
Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has been a published writer for the past 40 years, with his most recent work being the best-selling Osprey titles MiG Alley (2019), I Will Run Wild (2020), Under the Southern Cross (2021), The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club (2021), Going Downtown (2022), The Cactus Air Force (2022) alongside the late Eric Hammel, and most recently Clean Sweep (2023). Tom served in the US Navy in Vietnam and currently lives in Encino, California.
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