World War II air war companion to Panzer Aces and Panzer Aces
IIIn-the-cockpit accounts of aerial dogfights by some of Germany's
deadliest pilots ever to take to the skiesThis exciting book tells the
combat biographies of seven Luftwaffe aces: three day-fighter pilots,
one night-fighter pilot, one close-support pilot, and two bomber pilots.
This mix of well-known and less famous pilots includes Heinz Bär, who
had 221 victories and was an ME 262 ace; Otto Kittel, the fourth-highest
Luftwaffe ace with 267 kills; Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, a leading
night-fighter ace with 121 kills; Wilhelm Batz, whose two-year combat
career ended with 237 kills in the elite JG 52; Otto Weiss, a
close-support pilot in the Hs 123 and Hs 129; Joachim Helbig, who flew
the Ju 88 bomber over Malta; and Ludwig Havighorst, who served first
with the infantry and then the Luftwaffe, where he flew fifty bombing
missions over Stalingrad.