Osprey - Aircraft Of The Aces 02 - Bf 109 Aces Of North Africa And The Mediterranean

totally Outnumbered Throughout Their Short Two-year Sojourn In The Western Desert, The Crack Fighter Pilots Of The Handful Of Jagdgeschwader In-theatre Fought An Effective Campaign In Support Of Rommel’s Afrika Korps Against The British And American Forces. Relying Almost Exclusively On The Luftwaffe’s Staple Fighter Of World War 2, The Messerschmitt Bf 109, The Battle-hardened Aces Used The Aircraft’s Superior Performance To Achieve Incredible Scores Against The Allies. Similarly, Once Pushed Out Of North Africa, These Units Continued To Take The Fight To The Raf And Usaaf From Makeshift Bases In Northern Italy. Equipped mainly with Messerschmitt's classic BF 109, the JG 27 elite Luftwaffe Unit wreaked havoc against RAF squadrons in the Middle East during the Afrika Korps Campaign. This book describes both the plane and the pilots who flew them. Having declared war on Britain and France on 11 June 1940, Benito Mussolini began an immediate air offensive to knock out the island of Malta, a British base vital to any plans to wage war in Middle East. Beretning om piloter, der fløj det tyske jagerfly Bf 109 i Nordafrika og Middelhavsområdet under 2.verdenskrig