Название: Dieppe: The Greatest Air Battle, 19th August 1942 Автор: Norman Leslie Robert Franks
Издательство: Grub Street Publishing
Год: 2010
Формат: pdf, epub
Страниц: 272
Размер: 10,27 Мб
Язык: английский
This book provides a detailed, minute by minute, hour by hour, blow by blow account of operations on a day which has become accepted as the one on which the Royal Air Force fought its greatest air battle. The RAF flew nearly 3,000 sorties: the Luftwaffe 945, Air combat, ground attacks, bombing and smoke laying missions cost the RAF over 100 aircraft and the Luftwaffe nearly 50. All this happened in just 16 hours.