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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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A vivid narrative 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 events of major military importance occurred on
separate sides of the planet. In the South Pacific, the United
States went on the offensive, landing the First Marine Division at
Guadalcanal. In England, 12 B-17 bombers of the new Eighth Air
Force’s 97th Bombardment Group 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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