Luftwaffe Sturmgruppen
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heavily armed fighter interceptors
illustrated
maps
plane
Second World War 2 II
short-range combat
Storm troopers
strategy
tactic
victory
WWII WW2
Product details
- ISBN 9781841769080
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 182 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 12 Oct 2005
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The 'storm troopers' of the Luftwaffe, the elite Sturmgruppen units comprised the most heavily armed and armoured fighter interceptors ever produced by the Germans.
Their role was to smash like a mighty fist through the massed ranks of USAAF daylight bombers. Only volunteers could serve with these elite units, and each pilot was trained to close with the enemy and engage him in extremely short-range combat, attacking from the front and the rear in tight arrowhead formations. In exceptional circumstances pilots would even ram their enemy.
This book chronicles the brief, but violent, career of the Sturmgruppen during the dark days of 1944-45, employing first-hand accounts and rare archival photography.
Osprey's primary Luftwaffe author and artist, John Weal has written, illustrated and/or supplied artwork for several titles in the Aircraft of the Aces series. He owns one of the largest private collections of original German-language literature from World War 2, and his research is firmly based on this huge archive. This is his fifth book in the Aviation Elite Units series. He lives in Berkshire, UK.
