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Spitfires Over Berlin [Kietas viršelis]

  • Formatas: Hardback, 210 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 196x130x10 mm, weight: 937 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 20-Nov-2019
  • Leidėjas: Mortons Media Group
  • ISBN-10: 1911658042
  • ISBN-13: 9781911658047
  • Formatas: Hardback, 210 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 196x130x10 mm, weight: 937 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 20-Nov-2019
  • Leidėjas: Mortons Media Group
  • ISBN-10: 1911658042
  • ISBN-13: 9781911658047
A selection of exciting, intriguing and thoroughly researched stories from the last days of WW2.

As British and American forces closed in from the west, the Russians pushed in hard from the east, and the RAF and USAAF bombed Germany every night and day, the beleaguered Luftwaffe went all-out in a last effort to defend the Fatherland during the last months of the Second World War.Spitfires Over Berlin tells the story of the desperate battles that took place over the Western Front from January 1 to May 8, 1945.True stories of aerial combat, courage and daring from all sides of the conflict illustrate the dramatic tale of the war’s closing chapter – from the battle between the Spitfire XIV pilots of 350 Squadron and Fw 190s over the western fringes of Berlin to the murder of a downed P-51 Mustang pilot by civilians and carefully planned ramming attacks on American bombers.Also featured are the ‘dogfight’ between a Piper L-4H Grasshopper and a Fieseler Storch, what led a disgraced Luftwaffe pilot to fly the lethal BP 20 Natter rocket-powered interceptor, the French aces who flew for the Soviets, the fate of the US pilots who shot down a flight of Mistel combinations and much more.
Luftwaffe reborn
8(10)
The German Air Force at the beginning of 1945
All-out attack
18(20)
January 1, 1945: Operation Baseplate
Dicing with piggybacks
38(12)
February 3, 1945: The Double Nickel's Mistel encounter
The fatal mistake of Lothar Sieber
50(10)
March 1, 1945: Bachem-Werk M23 test flight
Yaks over Konigsberg
60(16)
March 31, 1945: Normandie-Niemen joins the last battle for East Prussia's capital
King of fighters
76(18)
The best single-seaters of 1945
Ram them!
94(12)
April 7, 1945: Sonderkommando `Elbe' is unleashed on the Eighth Air Force
When Wee Willie ran out of luck
106(12)
April 8, 1945: Boeing B-17G 42-31333 is destroyed
World's fastest Messerschmitt
118(6)
April 9, 1945: Hans-Guido Mutke's controversial dive
Canadians against the Komet
124(8)
April 10, 1945: Leutnant Friedrich Kelb achieves the final rocket fighter victory of the war
The Grasshopper that killed a Stork
132(6)
April 11, 1945: Piper L-4H v Fieseler Fi 156 Storch
Piston engine zenith
138(8)
April 14, 1945: Oberfeldwebel Willi Reschke destroys a Hawker Tempest V
Two shots to the head
146(8)
April 16, 1945: The murder of Captain Chester E `Coggie' Coggeshall Jr
Spitfires over Berlin
154(8)
350 (Belgian) Squadron's magnificent seven in combat
The ringmaster's grand finale
162(14)
April 26, 1945: JV 44 and Adolf Galland's last battle
Volksjager victory
176(12)
May 4, 1945: Heinkel He 162 pilot Leutnant Rudolf Schmitt claims a Typhoon
Final dogfight
188(4)
May 8, 1945: Who scored the last aerial victory of the air war in Europe?
Aftermath
192(10)
May 9, 1945, and beyond
Index 202