Luftwaffe Aces
World War II air war companion to Panzer Aces
and Panzer Aces II, In-the-cockpit accounts of aerial dogfights by some of Germany's deadliest pilots ever to take to the skies. This 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 Bär, 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.
ISBN-13: 9780811731775
Author: Franz Kurowski
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Publication date: 04/10/2002
Meet the Author
Franz Kurowski served as a reporter in the German Army during World War II and has since written over one hundred books. He lives in Germany.