Thunderbolt! The P-47 (Military History (Ibooks))
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ISBN: 0743423976 / Publisher: I Books, August 2001
One of America's top World War II aces and a pilot of the P-47 Thunderbolt describes the exploits of the U.S. 56th Fighter Group and their air battle against Hitler's Luftwaffe. Original.
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?The key to victory in World War II lay in wresting control of the skies from the Nazis. America's most courageous pilots hurled their underrated P-47 Thunderbolts time and again against the Luftwaffe's over-whelming power, and won. This is the true story of one of the greatest Thunderbolt aces of all, Robert S. Johnson: his training, his early failures, his brushes with death and his 28 kills that helped smash the German juggernaut. Step-by-step, dogfight-by-dogfight, manoeuvre-by-manoeuvre, he details daring aerial exploits against monumental odds with America's fabled 56th Fighter Group, a special breed of men who changed the course of history.
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