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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'.

Table of Contents

Aerial Warfare Revolution /First Clashes /Battles Intensify /Bodenplatte to Varsity /To the Death /All the King's Men /Soviet Victories /Colour Plates Commentary /Index

Product details

Published Dec 28 2017
Format Ebook (Epub)
Edition 1st
Extent 96
ISBN 9781472823533
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 70 b/w; 32 col
Series Aircraft of the Aces
Short code ACE 136
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Andrew Thomas

Andrew Thomas is one of Britain's leading RAF rese…

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Mark Postlethwaite

Mark Postlethwaite was born in Leicestershire in 1…

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Jim Laurier

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