Air War on the Eastern Front
Air War on the Eastern Front A lavishly illustrated account of the entire air campaign on the Eastern Front in World War II.The Red Air Force versus the Luftwaffe in the skies over Eastern Europe.…
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Air War on the Eastern Front
A lavishly illustrated account of the entire air campaign on the Eastern Front in World War II.The Red Air Force versus the Luftwaffe in the skies over Eastern Europe. Disregarding his Non-Aggression Pact with Joseph Stalin, Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, a full-scale invasion of the Soviet homeland...aimed squarely at Moscow.In the skies over Russia, the battle-hardened airmen of the Luftwaffe made short work of the Red Air Force during opening days of Barbarossa. June 1941: Having conquered most of Western Europe, Adolf Hitler turned his attention to the vast Soviet Union.
Thus, much of the Red Air Force was destroyed on the ground before meeting the Luftwaffe in the skies. To make matters worse, Stalin had executed many of his best pilots during the perennial "purges" of the 1930s. By 1944, however, the Soviet airmen had regained the initiative and
Air War on the Eastern Front