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You are bidding on a FANTASTIC Book Titled, “JG26 – Top Guns of the Luftwaffe”, by Donald L. Caldwell! This is #54 out of 200 Author and Ace SIGNED Editions!
Jagdgeschwader (Fighter Wing) 26, the German elite fighter unit, was more feared by the Allies than any other Luftwaffe group. Based on extensive archival research in Europe, personal combat diaries and interviews with more than 50 surviving pilots, Caldwell here assembles a superb day-to-day chronicle of JG26 operations, from its first air victory in 1939 to its final combat patrol in 1945. For the first two years of the war it was an even match between the Spitfires and Hurricanes of the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe’s Messerschmitts and Focke Wulfs; but–as the author reveals in meticulous detail–the scales tipped in favor of the Allies in 1943 with the arrival of the Eighth U.S. Air Force and its peerless P-51 Mustang. In his first book, Caldwell, a research chemist, describes how the German pilots’ morale remained high even after it was obvious to all but the youngest and most naive that the war was lost. The ultimate recommendation comes from Adolf Galland, legendary Messerschmitt pilot and commanding officer of Fighter Wing 26, who in the foreword calls JG26 “a profound book, written in full fairness.”
A total of 3 signatures, this Reference Book is in AMAZING condition for its age! The autographs are on a bookplate that is affixed to the inner page, and include:
General Adolf Galland
Gerhard Schoepfel
Donald Caldwell
Printed in 1991, it features a forward by Adolf Galland and contains 448 pages in total. Complete with dust jacket and mylar cover, (note that the white marks you see on front and rear cover is just glare from the Mylar). Would make a PERFECT addition to any collection or display!
