Allied Jet Killers of World War 2

Allied fighter pilots began encountering German jets - principally the outstanding Me 262 fighter - from the autumn of 1944. Stunned by the aircraft''s speed and rate of climb, it took USAAF and RAF units time to work out how to combat this deadly threat as the Luftwaffe targeted the medium and heavy bombers attacking targets across the Reich.A number of high-scoring aces from the Eighth Air Force (Drew, Glover, Meyer, Norley and Yeager, to name but a few) succeeded in claiming Me 262s, Me 163 and Ar 234s during the final months of the campaign, as did RAF aces like Tony Gaze and ''Foob'' Fairbanks. The exploits of both famous and little-known pilots will be chronicled in this volume, detailing how they pushed their P-47s, P-51s, Spitfires and Tempests to the limits of their performance in order to down the Luftwaffe''s ''wonder weapons''.>

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• Authors: Stephen Chapis, Stephen Thomas Chapis, Andrew Thomas, Andrew (Author) Thomas
• Assisted by: Jim Laurier (Illustration), Jim (Illustrator) Laurier (Illustration), Laurier Jim (Illustration)
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781472823526
• ISBN: 978-1-4728-2352-6
• No. of pages: 96
• Series: Aircraft of the Aces; Aircraft of the Aces (Osprey); Aircraft of the Aces
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; HISTORY / Military / World War II, military history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, Military vehicles, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Warfare & defence, Second World War, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, Air forces and warfare, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Military aircraft