The 8th United States Army Air Force flew some of WW2’s most daring raids and sorties over Germany and mainland Europe. From their bases across Eastern England, their B-17s and B-24s took out key strategic targets in all of the major campaigns of the war, from D-Day to Big Week and from Saint-Lô to Berlin. Their P-51 Mustangs were the scourge of the Luftwaffe, combining with the fighters of the RAF to all but extinguish the Germans as a force in the air. But the price the Mighty Eight paid for their success was high: they suffered the largest losses of any American unit in the war.