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Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 051 - Down to Earth Strafing Aces of the Eighth Air Force

By William Hess

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Year
2003
ISBN
9781841764375, 184176437X
Open Library ID
OL8922394M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (20452125 bytes)
Pages
132\132
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

'Like The Long Reach, Down to Earth is a message from the battle at its height, told in their own words by the men who fight' - this is how Brig-Gen Francis Griswold, VIII Fighter Command, ends his introduction to this book. His official endorsement reveals just how important a document Down to Earth was to the teaching of tyro fighter pilots heading for action in the ETO. More leading aces were lost to flak whilst ground strafing than to German fighters. In this book William Hess has included biographies of all the pilots that originally contributed to this work back in 1943-44.

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