num_pages: 368
description: 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 Br 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.
language: English
title: Luftwaffe Aces: German Combat Pilots of WWII
publisher: Stackpole Books