Aces and Pilots of the U.S. 8Th/9th Air Forces - Hardcover

Scutts, Jerry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0711028958 ISBN 13: 9780711028951

Verlag: Ian Allan Publishing, 2002

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In the course of escorting their bombers, American fighter pilots steadily wore down the cream of the German Jagdwaffe to the point where it was unable to defend even its own airfields. Decimated by the sheer scale of operations that defending the Reich demanded, the enemy lost hundreds of pilots and aircraft to the point where the Luftwaffe fighter force, the former hunters of Europe's skies, increasingly became the hunted. In the European Theatre of Operations (ETO) those hunters rode cockpits of Mustangs, Thunderbolts and Lightnings and wore the patch of the Eighth/Ninth Fighter Commands. They succeeded in carrying the air war to the enemy in a way that had never before been possible. By doing so, numberous American pilots became air aces with a baseline five confirmed victories. In this detailed account of the contribution that the aces and pilots of the US 8th/9th Air Forces made to the ultimate allied victory, the highly respected aviation historian, Jerry Scutts has compiled a fitting tribute to all front line fighter pilots in the ETO, whether or not they achieved the coveted status of an ace.

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Jerry Scutts lives in South London. He is one of Britain's best-known aviation historians, and is the author of several titles under the Midland imprint. These include Aces and Pilots of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces and US Medium Bomber Units of WW2: Northwest Europe.

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• Verlag: Ian Allan Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0711028958
• ISBN 13: 9780711028951
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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