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Clean Sweep - VIII Fighter Command against the Luftwaffe, 1942-45 (Hardcover)
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Clean Sweep - VIII Fighter Command against the Luftwaffe, 1942-45 (Hardcover)
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Bloomsbury presents Clean Sweep by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, read by
Lance C Fuller.
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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