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Allied Jet Killers of World War 2

Andrew Thomas author Stephen Chapis author Jim Laurier illustrator Mark Postlethwaite illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:28th Dec '17

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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’.

ISBN: 9781472823526

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 310g

96 pages