Driven from their North African bases, the Luftwaffe regrouped on Sicily in early summer 1943 as the Allies prepared to invade the island. Airfields and serviceable planes were few, and Field Marshal Hermann Goering demanded the impossible of his airmen, branding them cowards when they were unsuccessful. Despite these crushing odds, the pilots of the 77th Fighter Wing took to the skies and attempted to ward off waves of Allied bombers and fighters. Wing commander Johannes Steinhoff bluntly describes the bleak situation on the island and the fierce combat above it.
- ISBN10 0811741508
- ISBN13 9780811741507
- Publish Date 20 August 2004 (first published 1 April 1988)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Stackpole Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 288
- Language English