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Air War On The Eastern Front

AUTHOR – Mike Guardia
PUBLISHER – Casemate
FORMAT – Softback
PAGES – 128
PUBLISHED – 2020
ISBN – 978 1 61200 908 7

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Category: Product ID: 7651

Description

The Red Air Force versus the Luftwaffe in the skies over Eastern Europe. June 1941: Having conquered most of Western Europe, Adolf Hitler turned his attention to the vast Soviet Union. Disregarding his Non-Aggression Pact with Joseph Stalin, Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, a full-scale invasion of the Soviet homeland… aimed squarely at Moscow. In the skies over Russia, the battle-hardened airmen of the Luftwaffe made short work of the Red Air Force during opening days of Barbarossa. To make matters worse, Stalin had executed many of his best pilots during the perennial “purges” of the 1930s. Thus, much of the Red Air Force was destroyed on the ground before meeting the Luftwaffe in the skies. By 1944, however, the Soviet airmen had regained the initiative and fervently wrested air superiority from the now-ailing Axis Powers. Fully illustrated with contemporary photographs, maps and profiles of the aircraft flown, this is a visual delight for anyone with an interest in the Eastern Front aerial conflict.

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