Stormbird Flying Through Fire as a Luftwaffe Ground-attack Pilot and ME 262 Ace

Stormbird: Flying Through Fire as a Luftwaffe Ground-attack Pilot and ME 262 Ace

 

The author, a Luftwaffe NCO pilot and Knight's Cross holder, gives a riveting account of his training with prewar Austrian air force, instructing with a Luftwaffe, then the terrifying ground attack operations on the Eastern Front trying to stop the Russian mincing machine. Serving alongside many well-known aces, sometimes taking off from his home airfield while under Soviet shellfire, he paints a picture of a man surviving against incredible odds, who became one of the elite with JG7, and learnt that the important thing with the ME 262 was to land near a convenient fox hole.

 

Hermann Buchner was a former German Luftwaffe fighter ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II. Buchner is credited with 46 tank victories and 58 aerial victories, including 12 while flying the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter, accumulated in 631 combat missions

 

Hermann Buchner

Hardcover large format 176pp illustrated with black-and-white photographs, and colour drawings, as well as facsimiles of documents

 

Book Code:  EX0681

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