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Luftwaffe Air & Ground Crew 1939–45

By Robert F. Stedman

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Year
2002
ISBN
978-1841764047
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (22435063 bytes)
Series
Men-at-Arms (Book 377)
Pages
\27
Time added
2017-01-10 00:45:33

Description

The Luftwaffe, honed in the Spanish Civil War, played a vital part in Germanys Blitzkrieg victories during the 1939-41 period of World War II. Badly overstretched by war on three fronts in 1942-44, it was crippled by an incompetent commander-in-chief, the losses among experienced aircrew, and shortage of fuel. In 1944-45 it faced a final battle of attrition in skies ruled by the Allies as the Eastern and Western pincers closed on the Reich but until the very end the dwindling band of veteran pilots - among them the greatest aces the world has ever known - presented a potent threat.

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