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Down to Earth - Strafing Aces of the Eighth Air Force

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Aircraft of the Aces - World War II - Allies & Independents

Last Stocked on 7/13/2020

Product Info

Title
Down to Earth - Strafing Aces of the Eighth Air Force
Publisher
Category
Author
William Hess
Publish Year
2003
Pages
128
Dimensions
7.5x9.5x.33"
NKG Part #
2147394123
MFG. Part #
OSPACE051
Type
Softcover
Series
ACE51

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.