Clean Sweep: VIII Fighter Command against the Luftwaffe, 1942–45 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781472855480,1472855485,9781472855466, 1472855469

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 1472855469
• ISBN-13: 9781472855466
• Author: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

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.

Table contents:

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

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