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Overview
- 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
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780811731775
- ISBN-10: 0811731774
- Publisher: Stackpole Books
- Publish Date: September 2004
- Dimensions: 8.98 x 6.36 x 1.05 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.47 pounds
- Page Count: 368
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