Luftwaffe Fighter Ace - From the Eastern Front to the Defense of the Homeland

Informationen zum Autor By Norbert Hanning Klappentext Action-packed memoir of aerial combatInside the cockpits of Bf 109, Fw 190, and Me 262 fightersCandid photos taken by the author himselfNorbert Hanning remembers an attack on a Soviet bomber: "I side-slipped down towards his tail, got in close behind him, and aimed at his two starboard engines. Pieces flew off his wing as my shells struck home. Bright flames streamed from his engines . . . an inferno erupted as his wing tanks went up." Zusammenfassung In this action-packed memoir of aerial combat in World War II, Norbert Hannig remembers what it was like to fly with the German Luftwaffe on the Eastern Front: the high-altitude drama of closing in on a Soviet bomber, the thrill of watching his rounds hit home and burst the enemy into flames, the excitement of landing unscathed.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Norbert Hannig, Norbert Hanning
• Verlag: Stackpole Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 19.10.2009
• EAN: 9780811735933
• ISBN: 978-0-8117-3593-3
• Seiten: 192
• Serien: Stackpole Military History Series; Stackpole Military History; Stackpole Military History Series; Stackpole Military History
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945); Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Staatslehre und politische Verwaltung