The battle for the skies in World War II fuelled a race between rival
air forces to develop ever faster and more capable fighter aircraft -
and the struggle for air superiority was never over until the war itself
ended.
This volume explores four clashes of some of the finest planes and
pilots, in key theatres of the war: Spitfires duelling the formidable Bf
109 over the Channel, the Fw 190 battling the Soviet La 5 and 7 on the
Eastern Front, the F4F Wildcat in a desperate clash with the legendary
A6M Zero-sen, and the F4U Corsair in combat with the second-generation
Japanese Ki-84 in the closing days of the war.
Fully illustrated with contemporary photographs, maps and colour
artwork, Air Combat conveys the full story behind these dramatic
aviation duels.