Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

Clean Sweep (MP3-Download)

VIII Fighter Command against the Luftwaffe, 1942–45 Ungekürzte Lesung. 1103 Min.
Sprecher: Fuller, Lance C

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Produktbeschreibung

Bloomsbury presents Clean Sweep by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, read by Lance C Fuller. A vivid history, packed with first-hand accounts, of the US Eighth Air Force's VIII Fighter Command from its foundation in 1942 through to its victory in the skies over Nazi Germany. On August 7, 1942, two major events occurred on opposite sides of the planet. In the South Pacific, the United States went on the offensive with the First Marine Division landing on Guadalcanal. In England, 12 B-17 bombers of Eighth Air Force bombed the Rouen–Sotteville railroad marshalling yards in France. While the mission was small, the aerial struggle that began that day would ultimately cost the United States more men killed and wounded by the end of the war in Europe than the Marines would lose in the Pacific War. Clean Sweep is the story of the creation, development and operation of the Eighth Air Force Fighter Command and the battle to establish daylight air superiority over the Luftwaffe so that the invasion of Europe could be successful. Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has had a lifelong interest in the history of the fighter force that defeated the Luftwaffe over Germany. He has collected many first-hand accounts from participants over the past 50 years, getting to know pilots such as the legendary "Hub" Zemke, Don Blakeslee and Chuck Yeager, as well as meeting and interviewing leading Luftwaffe pilots Adolf Galland, Gunther Rall and Walter "Count Punski" Krupinski. This story is told through accounts gathered from both sides.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Osprey Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472855503
• Artikelnr.: 70161572

Autorenporträt

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has been a published writer for the past 40 years, with his most recent work being the best-selling Osprey titles MiG Alley (2019), I Will Run Wild (2020), Under the Southern Cross (2021), The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club (2021), Going Downtown (2022), The Cactus Air Force (2022) alongside the late Eric Hammel, and most recently Clean Sweep (2023). Tom served in the US Navy in Vietnam and currently lives in Encino, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Brigadier General USAF (Ret.) Clarence "Bud" Anderson Author
Preface Chapter One: The Most Important Day Chapter Two: War on the Horizon
Chapter Three: Fledgling Fighters Chapter Four: Yanks in the RAF Chapter
Five: Starting Over Chapter Six: Opponents Chapter Seven: VIII Fighter
Command Struggles to Survive Chapter Eight: The Battle Gets Serious Chapter
Nine: Against the Odds Chapter Ten: Carrying On Chapter Eleven: Mission 115
- The Day the Luftwaffe Won Chapter Twelve: Reinforcement Chapter Thirteen:
End of the Beginning Chapter Fourteen: Jimmy Doolittle Arrives Chapter
Fifteen: Blakeslee Takes Command Chapter Sixteen: One-Man Air Force Chapter
Seventeen: Big Week Chapter Eighteen: "I Knew the Jig Was Up" Chapter
Nineteen: The Battle of Germany Chapter Twenty: Liberating Europe Chapter
Twenty-One: The Battle of Normandy Chapter Twenty-Two: Oil: The Knockout
Punch Chapter Twenty-Three: The Road To Bodenplatte Chapter Twenty-Four:
Death of the Luftwaffe Chapter Twenty-Five: A Clean Sweep Bibliography
Glossary Index

Rezensionen

The European air war from 1942 to 1945 is a daunting subject, but Tom Cleaver's study of VIII Fighter Command contributes to our broader knowledge of 'The Mighty Eighth' with detailed coverage of personalities and events, plus insightful analysis.