John Stanaway

475th Fighter Group (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Davey, Chris

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Formed with the best available fighter pilots in the Southwest Pacific, the 475th Fighter Group was the pet project of Fifth Air Force chief, General George C Kenney.

From the time the group entered combat in August 1943 until the end of the war it was the fastest scoring group in the Pacific and remained one of the crack fighter units in the entire US Army Air Forces with a final total of some 550 credited aerial victories. Amongst its pilots were the leading American aces of all time, Dick Bong and Tom McGuire, with high-scoring pilots Danny Roberts and John Loisel also serving with the 475th.

This book details these pilots, the planes they flew and the campaigns and battles they fought in including such famous names as Dobodura, the Huon Gulf, Oro Bay, Rabaul, Hollandia, the Philippines and Luzon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472802057
• Artikelnr.: 40469393

Autorenporträt

John Stanaway has written two best-selling volumes in the Aces series both covering the exploits of the greatest Pacific fighter of them all, the P-38 Lightning. He was also an official historian of the National P-38 Pilots' Association.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE BE JOYFUL IN BATTLE CHAPTER TWO HUON GULF AND
RABAUL CHAPTER THREE LONG RANGE OVER WATER CHAPTER FOUR THE PHILIPPINES
CHAPTER FIVE SOUTHEAST ASIA AND BEYOND APPENDICES COLOUR PLATES COMMENTARY
UNIT HERALDRY INDEX