Luftwaffe Fighter Ace: From the Eastern Front to the Defense of the Homeland
Action-packed memoir of aerial combatInside the cockpits of Bf 109, Fw 190, and Me 262 fightersCandid photos taken by the author himselfNorbert Hanning remembers an attack on a Soviet bomber: "I side-slipped down towards his tail, got in close behind him, and aimed at his two starboard engines....
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Action-packed memoir of aerial combatInside the cockpits of Bf 109, Fw 190, and Me 262 fightersCandid photos taken by the author himselfNorbert Hanning remembers an attack on a Soviet bomber: "I side-slipped down towards his tail, got in close behind him, and aimed at his two starboard engines. Pieces flew off his wing as my shells struck home. Bright flames streamed from his engines . . . an inferno erupted as his wing tanks went up."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780811735933 (0811735931)
Publish date: September 17th 2009
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Norbert Hannig went from service in the Jungvolk (an organization similar to the Boy Scouts) to the Luftwaffe in the latter part of 1940. Following completion of training, he was posted early in 1943 to Jagdgeschwader 54 (the "Green Hearts" Wing) on the Eastern Front, which boasted aces of the calib...
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