Mustang Aces of the Eighth Air Force
| Author | : Jerry Scutts |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 68 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Mustang (Fighter plane) |
| ISBN | : 9788483722220 |
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Mustang Aces of the Ninth & Fifteenth Air Forces & the RAF
| Author | : Jerry Scutts |
| Publisher | : Osprey Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1995-11-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781855325838 |
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Although best remembered for its exploits with Eighth Air Force units, the Mustang, in its various marks, actually made its combat debut firstly with the Royal Air Force in the Army co-operation role, and then with the USAAF's tactically-optimised Ninth and Fifteenth Air Forces. Seeing action in Western Europe and the Mediterranean, pilots like Glenn T Eagleston, John J Voll and Samuel J Brown notched up impressive scores flying P-51Bs and Ds with the 354th, 31st and 52nd Fighter Groups. Rarely given the exposure enjoyed by their high-scoring brethren in the 'Mighty Eighth', this volume at last sets the record straight on Europe's remaining Mustang aces.
‘Down to Earth' Strafing Aces of the Eighth Air Force
| Author | : William N Hess |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2012-12-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782008535 |
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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.
Mustang Aces of the 357th Fighter Group
| Author | : Chris Bucholtz |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2012-12-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782008721 |
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The 357th Fighter Group produced 42 aces, more than any other group within the USAAF. It was also the first group in the Eighth Air Force to be equipped with the P-51. Thanks to this fighter and the talented pilots assigned to the group (men such as Bud Anderson, Kit Carson, John England and Chuck Yeager) the 357th achieved a faster rate of aerial victories than any other Eighth Air Force group during the final year of the war. It also claimed the highest number of aerial kills – 56 – in a single mission. The group was awarded two Distinguished Unit Citations (the unit equivalent of the Medal of Honor). Written by Chris Bucholtz, this book is crammed full of first-hand accounts, superb photography and some of the most colorful profiles to be found in World War II aviation.
Mustang Aces of the Eighth Air Force
| Author | : Jerry Scutts |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2012-11-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782006753 |
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Unquestionably the best American fighter of World War 2, the North American P-51 Mustang served in large numbers with the USAAF's Eighth Air Force from late 1943 until VE Day, and was the mount of most aces in-theatre. Charged with the responsibility of escorting huge formations of B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator bombers on daylight raids deep into Germany, the P-51 pilots of the various fighter groups within the 'Mighty Eighth' went head to head with the cream of the Luftwaffe's fighter squadrons for control of the skies over the Third Reich. Aircraft of the Aces 1, 19 and 24 are also available in a single volume as 'Aces of the Mighty Eighth'.
P-47 Thunderbolt Aces of the Eighth Air Force
| Author | : Jerry Scutts |
| Publisher | : Osprey Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1998-10-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781855327290 |
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The US aviation industry produced three great fighter designs to equip its burgeoning army air force during World War 2, and of this trio, Republic's P-47 Thunderbolt was easily the heaviest. Powered, crucially, by a turbocharged Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp radial engine that produced 2000 hp, the first production fighters reached the 56th FG in June 1942, and six months later the group joined the Eight Air Force in Britain. The arrival of the first P-47Cs in mid-1943 addressed the problem of the aircraft's short combat radius, as this model could be fitted with an external tank. Slowly, as combat tactics evolved in units like the 56th and 78th FGs, pilots learnt how best to fly the Thunderbolt in order to effectively counter the more nimble Luftwaffe fighters.
Mustang and Thunderbolt Aces of the Pacific and CBI
| Author | : John Stanaway |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2013-02-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472801946 |
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Although far better known for their exploits over the war torn skies of Germany and Italy, the USAAF's premier fighters, the P-47 and P-51, also made significant contributions to the victory against Japan from 1943 onwards. This book relates the appearance of the Allison-engined A-36As and P-51As over Rangoon from India in November 1943, the 1st Air Commando Group in China, P-47s over the jungles of New Guinea in 1943, escorting B-29s on long-range bombing sorties against the Home Islands in 1944-45 and elsewhere.
America's Top Eighth Air Force Aces in Their Own Words
| Author | : William Hess |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781610607025 |
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Soviet Aces of World War 2
| Author | : Hugh Morgan |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 159 |
| Release | : 2013-01-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472800575 |
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No single volume in English has ever appeared in the West dealing with this intriguing subject area, but now that restrictions have relaxed in the former Soviet Union, records of the deeds of the elite pilots of the various Soviet Air Forces are coming to light. Although initially equipped with very poor aircraft, and robbed of effective leadership thanks as much to Stalin's purges in the late 1930s as to the efforts of the Luftwaffe, Soviet fighter pilots soon turned the tables through the use of both lend-lease aircraft like the Hurricane, Spitfire, P-39 and P-40, and home-grown machines like the MiG-3, LaGG-3/5, Lavochkin La-5/7/9 and the Yak-1/3.
Fw 190 Defence of the Reich Aces
| Author | : John Weal |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 150 |
| Release | : 2012-10-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782005110 |
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Renowned aviation author and artist, John Weal, presents the last volume of Fw 190 Aces not previously covered in the Aircraft of the Aces series. From mid-1942 until the end of the war, German fighter pilots were deployed in the defence of the homeland in an effort to halt the near-constant bombing raids by Britain and America. This book tells their story, from the moment when the Luftwaffe began to retreat to the dying days of the Reich. Using previously unpublished photographs, this book charts the story of the men who earned their status as aces while fighting a hopeless battle to protect the land and the people they loved.
