Messerschmitts Over Sicily
A Luftwaffe Ace Fighting the Allies and Goering
Steinhoff Johannes
ISBN: | 9781844152278 |
Publisher: | Leo Cooper Ltd |
Published: | 30 November, 2004 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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Messerschmitts Over Sicily
A Luftwaffe Ace Fighting the Allies and Goering
Steinhoff Johannes
Steinhoff recounts gripping episodes from his Luftwaffe wartime career. Focusing on this ace pilot's defence of Sicily before and after the Allied landings, we read of the technology and intrigue within the German military machine; how Goering had fallen out of favour with Hitler and was condemning his leading pilots as cowards and then how many senior air officers plotted to depose the brutish Luftwaffe leader. This is an action-packed insight into the beginning of the demise of the once-mighty German Air Force that ruled the air in the early years of World War II. Author Details Johannes Steinhoff became a senior commander and was given an elite Luftwaffe unit whose purpose was to train pilots to fly the first German jet fighter, the Messerschmitt 262. His account provides an unflinching account of wartime life in the Luftwaffe.
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