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    Clean Sweep: VIII Fighter Command against the Luftwaffe, 1942?45

    Clean Sweep by McKelvey Cleaver, Thomas;

    VIII Fighter Command against the Luftwaffe, 1942?45

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Osprey Publishing
    • Date of Publication 8 May 2025
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781472855459
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages pages
    • Size 232x152x34 mm
    • Weight 520 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 16 pages of black and white illustrations
    • 700

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    Short description:

    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.

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    Long description:

    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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    Table of Contents:

    Foreword by Brigadier General USAF (Ret.) Clarence "Bud" Anderson
    Author Preface
    Chapter One: The Most Important Day
    Chapter Two: War on the Horizon
    Chapter Three: Fledgling Fighters
    Chapter Four: Yanks in the RAF
    Chapter Five: Starting Over
    Chapter Six: Opponents
    Chapter Seven: VIII Fighter Command Struggles to Survive
    Chapter Eight: The Battle Gets Serious
    Chapter Nine: Against the Odds
    Chapter Ten: Carrying On
    Chapter Eleven: Mission 115 - The Day the Luftwaffe Won
    Chapter Twelve: Reinforcement
    Chapter Thirteen: End of the Beginning
    Chapter Fourteen: Jimmy Doolittle Arrives
    Chapter Fifteen: Blakeslee Takes Command
    Chapter Sixteen: One-Man Air Force
    Chapter Seventeen: Big Week
    Chapter Eighteen: "I Knew the Jig Was Up"
    Chapter Nineteen: The Battle of Germany
    Chapter Twenty: Liberating Europe
    Chapter Twenty-One: The Battle of Normandy
    Chapter Twenty-Two: Oil: The Knockout Punch
    Chapter Twenty-Three: The Road To Bodenplatte
    Chapter Twenty-Four: Death of the Luftwaffe
    Chapter Twenty-Five: A Clean Sweep
    Bibliography
    Glossary
    Index

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