Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

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The USAAF in the Italian Campaign Ungekürzte Lesung. 1 Min.

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Produktbeschreibung

Filled with personal accounts of the action, this book details the USAAF's tactical and strategic campaigns in the skies over Italy in World War II. With the defeat of the Germans and Italians on Sicily in mid-July 1943, the focus of the war in the air shifted toward the battle for the Italian mainland itself. This campaign took place in the context of the coming invasion of northwest Europe, with many of the best units from the North African and Sicilian campaigns withdrawn to prepare for the new front, while those units that remained had a lower priority for replacements of men and material. Despite these difficulties, the air war in the Italian campaign is a study in the successful application of tactical air power. Mediterranean Sweep describes how USAAF forces, alongside Free French, Italian Co-Belligerent, British and Commonwealth units, and even a squadron of the Brazilian Air Force, took the war to the Axis in both the fighter-bomber war and Operation Bingo, the successful bombing campaign to withhold supplies from the German forces fighting on the Gothic Line. Building on the story of the USAAF in North Africa and over Sicily told in his previous work Turning The Tide, renowned aviation expert Tom Cleaver uses a wide range of first-hand accounts from American, Allied, German, and Italian pilots and other aircrew to bring to life the bitter struggle in the skies over Italy from mid-1943 through to the end of World War II.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Osprey Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472863447
• Artikelnr.: 71293966

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

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Introduction
Chapter One: Sicily
Chapter Two: Invaders
Chapter Three: Invading Italy
Chapter Four: Hun Hunters
Chapter Five: USS Corsica
Chapter Six: The Forgotten Fifteenth
Chapter Seven: The Blackest Day
Chapter Eight: Red Tails
Chapter Nine: Piggyback in a P-38
Chapter Ten: Operation Bingo

Rezensionen

Mediterranean Sweep offers a rare and valuable look at one of the least appreciated aspects of the US Army Air Forces' contribution to victory in World War II.