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Luftwaffe Aces - German Combat Pilots of WWII

By: Stackpole Books

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Military History Series (Stackpole Books)

Last Stocked on 11/25/2013

Product Info

Title
Luftwaffe Aces - German Combat Pilots of WWII
Publisher
Category
Author
Franz Kurowski
Publish Year
2004
Pages
396
Dimensions
6x9x.8"
NKG Part #
2147482754
Type
Softcover

Description

This exciting book tells the combat biographies of seven Luftwaffe aces: three day-fighter pilots, one night-fighter pilot, one close-support pilot, and two bomber pilots. This mix of well-known and less famous pilots includes Heinz Bär, who had 221 victories and was an ME 262 ace; Otto Kittel, the fourth-highest Luftwaffe ace with 267 kills; Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, a leading night-fighter ace with 121 kills; Wilhelm Batz, whose two-year combat career ended with 237 kills in the elite JG 52; Otto Weiss, a close-support pilot in the Hs 123 and Hs 129; Joachim Helbig, who flew the Ju 88 bomber over Malta; and Ludwig Havighorst, who served first with the infantry and then the Luftwaffe, where he flew fifty bombing missions over Stalingrad.

  • World War II air war companion to Panzer Aces and Panzer Aces II
  • In-the-cockpit accounts of aerial dogfights by some of Germany's deadliest pilots ever to take to the skies