Luftwaffe in Colour: From Glory to Defeat: 1942-1945

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Luftwaffe in Colour: From Glory to Defeat: 1942-1945

Nearly 400 color photographs reveal fascinating detail on the planes and the men of the Luftwaffe, as they progressed from seeming invincibility to utter defeat.

Eighty years after its creation, the Luftwaffe is still one of the most fascinating forces in the history of aviation. A companion to Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 1, which covered theÂ victory years from 1939 up to Spring 1942, this volume with nearly 400 images contains even more fascinating material on the machines of the Luftwaffe and the men who flew them, as their fate took an increasingly grim path.

Initially the Luftwaffe ruled the skies but thereafter fought an increasingly futile war of attrition which when combined with vital strategic mistakes in aircraft production, was its death knell.Â Despite this the Luftwaffe produced the most successful air aces of all time who feature in this volume. Among many remarkable images we see one of the last Junkers 87 B-2 operational on the front line on the Eastern Front during the winter of 1942-1943, the huge BV 222 V-5 of Lufttransportstaffel in the port of Heraklion in late 1942, pilots in Tunisia in 1943, the aces Hans Philipp, Wolfgang Spate and Heinz Schnaufer and a vivid demonstration of the reversal in fortunes in 1944 as Allied bombers destroy 106 places, engulfing them in fire atÂ Schwabisch-Hall on German soil.

In this painstakinglyÂ pieced together collection, originally published in France, the full detail behind the propaganda is once more revealed, in rare colour photographs.
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
EISBN 9781612005683
Format Kindle eBook
Label Casemate
Manufacturer Casemate
NumberOfPages 160
PublicationDate 2017-05-19
Publisher Casemate
ReleaseDate 2017-05-19
Studio Casemate

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781612005683
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Casemate
Manufacturer	Casemate
NumberOfPages	160
PublicationDate	2017-05-19
Publisher	Casemate
ReleaseDate	2017-05-19
Studio	Casemate

Luftwaffe in Colour: From Glory to Defeat: 1942-1945

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