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356th Fighter Group in World War II: in Action over Eure with the P-47 and P-51 (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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356th Fighter Group in World War II: in Action over Eure with the P-47 and P-51 (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Here for the first time is the story of the 356th Fighter Group
which flew in the European Theater of Operations during the Second
World War. This 9th Air Force unit spent over two years in England,
occupying the airfield at Martlesham Heath, in the county of
Suffolk. Originally entering combat flying P-47 Thunderbolts, and
later switching to P-51 Mustangs, the 356th dispatched its aircraft
on 407 missions across the Channel. Between the time of the first,
on October 15, 1943, and the final mission on May 7, 1945, the
356th was credited with destroying 277 enemy planes. As the
principle of bomber escort was strictly adhered to by the 356ths
leaders, pilots of the group often had to pass up opportunities to
engage enemy fighters and increase their scores. While this fact
helped earn the 356th a reputation as being a hard luck outfit, due
to their low victory to loss ratio, the gratitude and praise from
the bomber crews more than offset this misnomer.
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