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Alan Carey's new book is the story of U.S. Navy Fleet Air Wing Seven
(FAW-7) and the men who flew the Navy version of the Consolidated B-24
Liberator bomber out of Dunkeswell and Upottery, England during World
War II. Navy PB4Y-1 Liberator squadrons were unlike their counterparts
in the U.S. Army's 8th Air Force, who battled their way through thick
flak and swarms of German fighters while flying to and from targets in
continental Europe. The job of U.S. Navy PB4Y-1 Liberator aircrews was
to keep German U-boats from successfully operating in the Bay of Biscay
and the English Channel by going out day after day, often in miserable
weather conditions, on unrelenting search and destroy missions. During
the war, FAW-7 Liberators were responsible for the sinking of five
U-boats and damaging many more.
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