The Fight for the Skies - Softcover
The true story of Allied fighter action during World War II. It covers all the Western and Mediterranean theatres of war, concentrating on how and where Allied fighters were deployed. All major fighter types are represented in the photographs, including Spitfires, Hurricanes, Gladiators, Tempests and Typhoons, Mustangs, P-38s, P-47s, P-51s, Whirlwinds and Meteors, as well as Beaufighters and Mosquitoes. The activities of these very varied fighter types included escorting daylight bombing raids, fighter-bomber intruder operations into occupied Europe, and ground-attack activities in support of land forces in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and in North-Western Europe from the Normandy Campaign onwards. Flying fighters during World War II may have seemed glamorous, but it was also appallingly dangerous. More than 22,000 British and American fighter aircraft were lost during the conflict and over 9000 pilots died. Roger A. Freeman's book is as much about the men who flew in battle as it is about the aircraft, their performance, armament and overall effectiveness. More than 270 photographs provide a panorama of the war in the air above Western Europe and North Africa.
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As a boy, Roger Freeman watched from his father's farm as the 8th Air Force took off for its missions over Germany; he has had a lifelong interest in theMighty Eighth ever since, and now lectures on USAAF history, both here and in
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- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0304352985
- ISBN 13 9780304352982
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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The Fight for the Skies: Allied Fighter Action in Europe and North Africa, 1939 - 1945
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. . . . . 2nd edition. 4to, paperback. NEW. Bright, crisp & clean, unread; covers glossy. 192 p., illus., portraits. Seller Inventory # 1140701.28
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