Storm of Eagles: The Greatest Aviation Photographs of World War II by John Dibbs & Kent Ramsey & Robert "Cricket" Renner

Author:John Dibbs & Kent Ramsey & Robert "Cricket" Renner [Dibbs, John]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
ISBN: 9781472823014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-06-29T04:00:00+00:00

USAAF Curtiss P-40F, USS Ranger, January 19, 1943. After 11 days onboard ship, Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Austin prepares to take off for Cazes Aerodrome near Casablanca. Austin served as the 325th Fighter Group commander from December 1942 – July 1943 (achieving two air-to-air kills). To aid in visual identification for the invasion of North Africa, the aircraft initially carried the American flag on the fuselage in front of the insignia.

Luftwaffe Bf 109E-7/Tropical, Sicily, April 1941. Pilots of 1./JG 27 brief for the final leg of their transfer to Ain-El-Gazala, Libya. Arriving on April 18, 1./JG 27 claimed their first victories in North Africa the next day. One of the claims was by Staffelkapitän (squadron commander) Oberleutnant Karl-Wolfgang Redlich (holding papers on the left), flying “White 1” (in the middle background). Redlich scored 45 victories but was shot down and killed in action on May 29, 1944, while intercepting a group of bombers over Austria.

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