Mission 85

Minute-by-minute chronicle of the U.S. Eighth Air Force's bombing mission against German airfields in Holland

Mission came just days after the famous Schweinfurt-Regensburg raid

The Americans expected an easy mission, but it proved to be anything but

Loaded with firsthand accounts from pilots and crews of bombers and fighters

Ivo de Jong, an officer in the Dutch army, has been an international fellow at the U.S. Army War College. He has researched the Eighth Air Force for nearly twenty years and lives in Holland.