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Overview: In this volume of his critically acclaimed series, The American Aces Speak, noted military historian Eric Hammel brings fresh first-person accounts from thirty-nine U.S. Army Air Corps fighter aces who blasted their way across the skies of North Africa, the Mediterranean, and northern and southern Europe in the great crusade against Hitlers vaunted Luftwaffe and the other Axis air forces. Coupled with a clear, concise historical overview of Americas brilliant air war against the Axis in Europe and North Africa, Hammels detailed interviews bring out the most thrilling in-the-cockpit experiences of some of Americas best combat pilots. Climb aboard a P-38 Lightning as Maj. Bill Leverette fights Americas highest scoring single personal air battle against the Luftwaffe. And get into the cockpit of a P-47 Thunderbolt as 15-victory ace Capt. Don Bryan scores his dream kill by outwitting the pilot of a far speedier German jet in the closing days of the war in Europe. As he did in four companion volumes, Hammel has collected some of the very best air combat tales from Americas war against Germany. Nearly all the stories in Aces Against Germany have never before been told, and the others have been enhanced by details and viewpoints brought out by Hammels superb interviewing Together, the five volumes of nearly 200 first-person aerial combat stories from World War II, Korea, and Vietnam stand as an enduring testament to the combat airmen who fought their wars strapped into the cockpits of Americas lethal high-performance fighter aircraft. Aces Against Germany delivers a highly charged emotional rendering of the now-dim days of personal combat at the very edge of our living national history. There was never a war like it, and there never will be again. These are the stories of Americas eagles in their very own words. Eric Hammel is an acclaimed military historian and author of more than thirty other combat histories, including Pacifica Military Historys Guadalcanal: Starvation Island, Guadalcanal: Decision at Sea, Six Days in June, The Root: The Marines in Beirut, Ambush Valley, Fire in the Streets, and Khe Sanh: Siege in the Clouds. He lives with his wife in northern California.

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Aces Against Germany

The American Aces Speak

Eric Hammel

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Pacifica Military History

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Copyright 1993 by Eric Hammel

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be mailed to: Permissions, Pacifica Military History, 1149 Grand Teton Drive, Pacifica, California 94044.

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For Mom and Dad

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Books by Eric Hammel

76 Hours: The Invasion of Tarawa (with John E. Lane)

Chosin: Heroic Ordeal of the Korean War

The Root: The Marines in Beirut

Ace!: A Marine Night-Fighter Pilot in World War II (with R. Bruce Porter)

Duel for the Golan (with Jerry Asher)

Guadalcanal: Starvation Island

Guadalcanal: The Carrier Battles

Guadalcanal: Decision at Sea

Munda Trail: The New Georgia Campaign

The Jolly Rogers (with Tom Blackburn)

Khe Sanh: Siege in the Clouds

First Across the Rhine (with David E. Pergrin)

Lima-6: A Marine Company Commander in Vietnam (with Richard D. Camp)

Ambush Valley

Fire In the Streets

Aces Against Japan

Aces Against Japan II

Aces Against Germany

Air War Europa: Chronology

Carrier Clash

Aces at War

Air War Pacific: Chronology

Aces in Combat

Bloody Tarawa

Marines at War

Carrier Strike

Pacific Warriors: The U.S. Marines in World War II

Iwo Jima: Portrait of a Battle

Marines in Hue City: Portrait of an Urban Battle

The U.S. Marines in World War II: Guadalcanal

The U.S. Marines in World War II: New Georgia, Bougainville, and Cape Gloucester

The U.S. Marines in World War II: Tarawa and the Marshalls

How America Saved the World

Coral and Blood

The Road to Big Week

Islands of Hell

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For a complete listing of all the military history books written by Eric

Hammel and currently available in print or for Kindle, visit:

http://www.EricHammelBooks.com

A free sample chapter from each book is available in the sites Free

section.

Please also visit http://www.PacificaMilitary.com

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Contents

Maps

Glossary and Guide to Abbreviations

PROLOGUE

First to Fight

Captain Frank Hill, USAAF

Dieppe, France, August 19, 1942

CHAPTER 1

Desert Raid

2d Lieutenant Rocky Byrne, USAAF

El Daba, Egypt, October 30, 1942

"You See Them, You Drive Up Behind Them, and You Shoot Them Down"

Captain Joe Owens, USAAF

Bizerte, Tunisia, November 30, 1942

Armed Reconnaissance

Captain Newell Roberts, USAAF

Tunisia, December 2, 1942

My Day for Luck

1st Lieutenant Jerry Collinsworth, USAAF

Tunisia, March 8, 1943

No Hits, No Runs, No Errors

1st Lieutenant Herman Visscher, USAAF

Gabes, Tunisia, March 28, 1942

CHAPTER 2

Triple

Major Gene Roberts, USAAF

Winterswijk, Holland, July 30, 1943

Thunderbolt

1st Lieutenant Lucky Truluck, USAAF

Borkum Island, Germany, September 27, 1943

CHAPTER

Ace Chrysalis

1st Lieutenant Herky Green, USAAF

Sardinia, May 19, 1943

Sweating It Out

1st Lieutenant Gerry Rounds, USAAF

Salerno, Italy, September 11, 1943

Seven Stukas

Major Bill Leverette, USAAF

Dodecanese Islands, October 9, 1943

Special Sweep

Major Bill Chick, USAAF

Udine, Italy, January 30, 1944

CHAPTER 4

Our Standard Tactic Was "Attack"

Captain Jim Carter, USAAF

Osnabruck, Germany, January 11, 1944

CHAPTER 5

The Lufbery

2d Lieutenant Frank Klibbe, USAAF

Lippstadt, Germany, February 22, 1944

Breaking the Wild Mustang

1st Lieutenant Bob Welden, USAAF

Mannheim, Germany, February 25, 1944

CHAPTER 6

The Big B

Major Tom Hayes, USAAF

Berlin, March 6, 1944

Raid on St. Nazaire

1st Lieutenant Jack Thornell, USAAF

St. Nazaire, France, March 11, 1944

CHAPTER 7

Free to Roam

Captain Jerry Brown, USAAF

Lingen, Germany, April 8, 1944

Crippled

1st Lieutenant Ed Heller, USAAF

Gifhorn, Germany, May 8, 1944

Without a Shot

Captain Maury Long, USAAF

Luxembourg, May 11, 1944

The Hunter

1st Lieutenant Dave Thwaites, USAAF

Brunswick, Germany, May 19, 1944

CHAPTER 8

Low-level Jeopardy

1st Lieutenant Jim Starnes, USAAF

Central France, June 8, 1944

Evader

Captain Jack Ilfrey, USAAF

France, June 11-20, 1944

Jumped

1st Lieutenant Dick Asbury, USAAF

Falaise, France, July 18, 1944

Two Missions, Two Friends

Flight Officer Bruce Carr, USAAF

Reims, France, August 9, 1944

CHAPTER 9

Shot Down

Captain Fred Trafton, USAAF

Lake Balaton, Hungary, April 23, 1944

Luck Is Where You Find It

2d Lieutenant Barrie Davis, USAAF

Galati, Romania, June 6, 1944

Ace in a Day

2d Lieutenant Stub Hatch, USAAF

Ploesti, Romania, June 10, 1944

Last Chance

1st Lieutenant Dick Lampe, USAAF

Budapest, Hungary, July 2, 1944

A Swarm of Angry Bees

Captain George Loving, USAAF

Rosiori de Vede, Romania, July 31, 1944

Black Flight

1st Lieutenant Bob Goebel, USAAF

Ploesti, Romania, August 18, 1944

The Bounce

Major George Buck, USAAF

Czechoslovakia, October 16, 1944

CHAPTER 10

Two Against Two Hundred

1st Lieutenant Rudy York, USAAF

Hanover, Germany, November 27, 1944

More Than Enough To Go Around

Major Bunny Comstock, USAAF

Koblenz, Germany, December 23, 1944

Long Odds

Major Gordon Graham, USAAF

Trier, Germany, December 25, 1944

CHAPTER 11

The Arado

Captain Don Bryan, USAAF

Remagen, Germany, March 14, 1945

Slow Jet

Captain Jack Warner, USAAF

Karlsbad, Germany, April 17, 1945

EPILOGUE

Kriegesgefangener

Captain Wayne Lowry, USAAF

Stalag Luft 1, Germany, October 1944-May 1945

Bibliography

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Maps

Glossary and Guide to Abbreviations ack-ack antiaircraft gunfire - photo 1

Glossary and Guide to Abbreviations ack-ack antiaircraft gunfire - photo 2

Glossary and Guide to Abbreviations ack-ack antiaircraft gunfire - photo 3

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Glossary and Guide to Abbreviations

ack-ack antiaircraft gunfire

Airacobra U.S. Bell P-39 fighter

API Armor-Piercing Incendiary ammunition

Angels altitude in thousands of feet

Ar-234 German Arado twin-jet bomber

AT-6 U.S. North American Texan advanced trainer

A-20 U.S. Douglas Havoc twin-engine light attack bomber

A-26 U.S. Douglas Invader twin-engine attack bomber bandit enemy

Fighter

Beaufighter British Bristol 156 twin-engine strike fighter bogey unidentified airplane

B-17 U.S. Boeing Flying Fortress four-engine heavy bomber

B-24 U.S. Consolidated Liberator four-engine heavy bomber

B-25 U.S. North American Mitchell twin-engine medium bomber]

B-26 U.S. Martin Marauder twin-engine medium bomber

CAVU Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited

Condor German Focke-Wulf FW-200 four-engine reconnaissance bomber

CPT Civilian Pilot Training (Program)

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