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Allied Jet Killers of World War 2 (Aircraft of the Aces Book 136) by Stephen Chapis, Andrew Thomas, Jim Laurier, Mark Postlethwaite is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The story of the USAAF and RAF pilots who engaged the most technologically advanced combat aircraft of World War 2 – the German jets, which were capable of speeds close to 200mph faster than the best Allied piston-engined fighters of the period.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'.

Who reads Allied Jet Killers of World War 2 (Aircraft of the Aces Book 136)?

Author

Stephen Chapis, Andrew Thomas, Jim Laurier, Mark Postlethwaite

Publisher

Osprey Publishing

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472823533

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Technology, Humanities