Luftwaffe Emergency Fighters (Osprey X-Planes 4)

Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 91
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In late 1944, the German Air Ministry organized what it called an Emergency Fighter Competition intended to produce designs for quick-to-build yet technically and tactically effective jet fighter aircraft capable of tackling the anticipated arrival of the B-29 Superfortress over Europe, as well as the British Mosquito and US P-38 Lightning which were appearing in ever greater numbers.

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