Sharks Over China: The 23rd Fighter Group in World War II - Softcover

Molesworth, Carl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1574882252 ISBN 13: 9781574882254

Verlag: Potomac Books Inc, 1999

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"Drawing on interviews, diaries, letters, and unit histories, Molesworth has stitched together a chronicle of a gutsy, resourceful outfit whose tasks included escorting bombers, bombing bridges, strafing troop trains and raiding enemy airfields. Absorbing reading for WWII aerial-combat buffs."--Publishers Weekly--Publishers Weekly "[A] meticulous chronicle of . . . the closest thing to a guerrilla air force the world has ever seen."--Air & Space--Air & Space

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This is the first history of the U.S. Army Air Corps unit that incorporated Gen. Claire Chennault's famous "Flying Tigers." During the dark days immediately after Pearl Harbor, most news from the Asian front was bad-with the exception of reports about the Flying Tigers and their successors, the 23rd Fighter Group. Day after day in the deadly skies over China, the 23rd's shark-mouthed P-40s outfought the Japanese. No single American fighter group in World War II performed more varied missions, was more successful, or was more central to the war effort in its theater of operations. By the end of the war, the 23rd had tallied nearly six hundred aerial victories and destroyed nearly four hundred more Japanese aircraft on the ground. Carl Molesworth's Sharks Over China is based on his interviews with the group's survivors and contains numerous rare photographs.

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• Verlag: Potomac Books Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1574882252
• ISBN 13: 9781574882254
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 326