{"product_id":"clean-sweep-viii-fighter-command-against-the-luftwaffe-194245","title":"Clean Sweep: VIII Fighter Command Against the Luftwaffe 1942-45","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=unicode\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cmeta name=\"GENERATOR\" content=\"MSHTML 11.00.10570.1001\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style='BOX-SIZING: border-box; FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: \"Amazon Ember\", Arial, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FONT-WEIGHT: 700 !important; COLOR: rgb(15,17,17); FONT-STYLE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; WIDOWS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial'\u003eA \nvivid history, packed with first-hand accounts, of the US Eighth Air Force's \nVIII Fighter Command from its foundation in 1942 through to its victory in the \nskies over Nazi Germany.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style='BOX-SIZING: border-box; FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: \"Amazon Ember\", Arial, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: rgb(15,17,17); FONT-STYLE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; WIDOWS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial'\u003e\u003cbr style=\"BOX-SIZING: border-box\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"BOX-SIZING: border-box\"\u003eOn August 7, \n1942, two major events occurred on opposite sides of the planet. In the South \nPacific, the United States went on the offensive with the First Marine Division \nlanding on Guadalcanal. In England, 12 B-17 bombers of Eighth Air Force bombed \nthe Rouen–Sotteville railroad marshalling yards in France. While the mission was \nsmall, the aerial struggle that began that day would ultimately cost the United \nStates more men killed and wounded by the end of the war in Europe than the \nMarines would lose in the Pacific War.\u003cbr style=\"BOX-SIZING: border-box\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"BOX-SIZING: border-box\"\u003eClean Sweep is the story of the creation, \ndevelopment and operation of the Eighth Air Force Fighter Command and the battle \nto establish daylight air superiority over the Luftwaffe so that the invasion of \nEurope could be successful.\u003cbr style=\"BOX-SIZING: border-box\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"BOX-SIZING: border-box\"\u003eThomas McKelvey Cleaver has had a lifelong \ninterest in the history of the fighter force that defeated the Luftwaffe over \nGermany. He has collected many first-hand accounts from participants over the \npast 50 years, getting to know pilots such as the legendary “Hub” Zemke, Don \nBlakeslee and Chuck Yeager, as well as meeting and interviewing leading \nLuftwaffe pilots Adolf Galland, Gunther Rall and Walter “Count Punski” \nKrupinski. This story is told through accounts gathered from both \nsides.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Shop EAA Merchandise","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58145039024431,"sku":"2274206400000","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/9272\/5551\/files\/CleanSweep.jpg?v=1787087308","url":"https:\/\/shop.eaa.org\/products\/clean-sweep-viii-fighter-command-against-the-luftwaffe-194245","provider":"Shop EAA Merchandise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}