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Allied Jet Killers of World War 2

By Andrew Thomas , Stephen Chapis

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
ISBN
1472823524, 978-1472823526
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
79 MB (82646412 bytes)
Series
Aircraft of the Aces
Edition
Original retail
Pages
96\0
Time added
2019-07-10 10:50:08
World War II History > Military Aviation History

Description

Allied fighter pilots began encountering German jets – principally the outstanding Me 262 fighter – from the autumn of 1944. Stunned by the aircraft's speed and rate of climb, it took USAAF and RAF units time to work out how to combat this deadly threat as the Luftwaffe targeted the medium and heavy bombers attacking targets across the Reich. A number of high-scoring aces from the Eighth Air Force (Drew, Glover, Meyer, Norley and Yeager, to name but a few) succeeded in claiming Me 262s, Me 163 and Ar 234s during the final months of the campaign, as did RAF aces like Tony Gaze and 'Foob' Fairbanks. The exploits of both famous and little-known pilots will be chronicled in this volume, detailing how they pushed their P-47s, P-51s, Spitfires and Tempests to the limits of their performance in order to down the Luftwaffe's 'wonder weapons'.

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