JG26 Top Guns of the Luftwaffe

{detailed description}Jagdgeschwader 26, the German elite fighter unit, was more feared by the Allies than any other Luftwaffe group. Their distinctive yellow- nosed planes always seemed to come slashing out of the sun with no warning, and with devastating effect. A microcosm of World War II exists in the rise and fall of this famous fighter wing. For the first two years of the war it was an even match between the Spitfires and Hurricanes of the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe's Messerschmitts and Focke Wulfs; but the scales tipped in favour of the Allies in 1943 with the arrival of the US Eighth Air Force and its peerless P-51 Mustang. Based on extensive archival research in Europe, personal combat diaries and interviews with more than 50 surviving pilots, Caldwell has assembled a superb day-to-day chronicle of JG 26 operations, from its first air victory in 1939 to its final combat patrol in 1945. Caldwell describes how the German pilots' morale remained high even after it was obvious to all but the youngest and most naive that the war was lost. This is the definitive work in English on the subject and essential reading for anyone interested in the aerial war of 1941-45
{Author / Publisher / Date}by Donald Caldwell
published by Frontline Books 2013 edn of 1991 1st 440pp illustrated, index, appendix 16x24
{condition}fine, small closed tear at head of d/j fold-in
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