Description

Unquestionably the best American fighter of World War 2, the North American P-51 Mustang served in large numbers with the USAAF's Eighth Air Force from late 1943 until VE Day, and was the mount of most aces in-theatre.

Charged with the responsibility of escorting huge formations of B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator bombers on daylight raids deep into Germany, the P-51 pilots of the various fighter groups within the 'Mighty Eighth' went head to head with the cream of the Luftwaffe's fighter squadrons for control of the skies over the Third Reich.

Table of Contents

Merlin's Reach
New Blood
A Wilder Pony
Outclassed
Mission Completed
The Bluenosers
Appendices

Product details

Published Nov 20 2012
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 100
ISBN 9781782006756
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 100 b/w; 40 col
Series Aircraft of the Aces
Short code ACE 1
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Jerry Scutts

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