Название: Jagdgeschwader 1 ‘Oesau’ Aces 1939-45
Автор: Robert Forsyth
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 134
ISBN: 978 1472822918
Год издания: 2017
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 97
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 11,7 MB
Formed shortly after the outbreak of World War 2, and equipped with Messerschmitt Bf 109Es, Jagdgeschwader 1 was initially tasked to defend the regional North Sea and Baltic coastal areas and Germany's main port cities and naval bases. The greatest task for JG 1 though came after 1942 in its defence of the Reich against the US Eighth Air Force's B-17s and B-24s, bearing the brunt of defence against increasingly regular, larger and deep penetrating USAAF daylight bomber raids with fighter escort. Levels of attrition subsequently grew, but so did experience among the leading aces, who were often the subject of propaganda films and literature.