Clean Sweep

VIII Fighter Command against the Luftwaffe, 1942–45

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvThomas McKelvey Cleaver,Thomas McKelvey Cleaver,Thomas Mckelvey Cleaver

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-05-08
Mått152 x 232 x 38 mm
Vikt606 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor464
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781472855459

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Foreword by Brigadier General USAF (Ret.) Clarence "Bud" AndersonAuthor PrefaceChapter One: The Most Important DayChapter Two: War on the HorizonChapter Three: Fledgling FightersChapter Four: Yanks in the RAFChapter Five: Starting OverChapter Six: OpponentsChapter Seven: VIII Fighter Command Struggles to SurviveChapter Eight: The Battle Gets SeriousChapter Nine: Against the OddsChapter Ten: Carrying OnChapter Eleven: Mission 115 – The Day the Luftwaffe WonChapter Twelve: ReinforcementChapter Thirteen: End of the BeginningChapter Fourteen: Jimmy Doolittle ArrivesChapter Fifteen: Blakeslee Takes CommandChapter Sixteen: One-Man Air ForceChapter Seventeen: Big WeekChapter Eighteen: “I Knew the Jig Was Up”Chapter Nineteen: The Battle of GermanyChapter Twenty: Liberating EuropeChapter Twenty-One: The Battle of NormandyChapter Twenty-Two: Oil: The Knockout PunchChapter Twenty-Three: The Road To BodenplatteChapter Twenty-Four: Death of the LuftwaffeChapter Twenty-Five: A Clean SweepBibliographyGlossaryIndex