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Hell Hawks! is the story of a band of young American pilots and their gritty, close-quarters fight against Hitler's vaunted military. They were the 365th Fighter Group, three squadrons of fighter-bomber pilots. Beginning just prior to D-Day, June 6, 1944, these pilots fresh from flight training in the United States (most were barely twenty years old) flew in close support of Eisenhower's ground forces as they advanced across France and into Germany. They flew the rugged, heavily armed P-47 Thunderbolt -- affectionately known as "the Jug" -- a big tub of a plane that could absorb a pounding…
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2 editions- Hardcover · English · 2008MBI Pub. and Zenith Press · 9780760329184
- Other · English · 2010Quarto Publishing Group USA · 352 pages · 9780760338254
Aerial operations, AmericanRegimental historiesCampaignsAmerican Aerial operationsWorld War, 1939-1945United StatesUnited states, army air forces