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Bf 109D/E - Blitzkrieg 1939-40 (Paperback)
Loot Price: R337
Discovery Miles 3 370
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Bf 109D/E - Blitzkrieg 1939-40 (Paperback)
Series: Dogfight
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Loot Price R337
Discovery Miles 3 370
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Using first-hand accounts and brand-new artwork, this book brings
to life the realities of flying the Bf 109 in combat during the
very first battles of World War II. The Bf 109 was one of the
principal fighter aircraft types in the Luftwaffe's inventory
during the opening months of World War II and it was central to
many of Germany's early victories, before coming up against the
unbeatable RAF during the Battle of Britain. This book presents
first-hand experiences of the pilots who flew the Bf 109E, the
aircraft which first featured a Daimler-Benz DB 601 powerplant, and
which was in the front line in the skies over Poland, the Low
Countries and France, and the older Bf 109D, still in use in the
Polish campaign. The early variants of the Messerschmitt fighter,
the Bf 109E-1, Bf 109E-2 and Bf 109E-3, swept all before them
during the opening wartime campaigns, their successes only fading
at the Battle of France, when the Bf 109's seasoned pilots
encountered modern and well-flown RAF and Armee de l'Air fighters.
In a rigorous and engaging new analysis, Luftwaffe aviation expert
Malcolm V. Lowe examines and assesses the Bf 109 as a fighting
machine from the perspective of the Luftwaffe at the forefront of
the German blitzkrieg. Contemporary photographs and specially
commissioned artwork, including a dramatic battlescene, armament
views, technical diagrams and ribbon diagrams illustrating
step-by-step each battle tactic of the main dogfights explored in
the book, bring the experiences of the Bf 109 pilots vividly to
life.
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