Title: Luftwaffe Fighter Ace
Authour: Norbert Hanning
Publisher: Stackpole
ISBN: 978-0-8117-3593-3 (paperback)
Stars: 4.5 (out of 5)
Ok, this pile of books I have read needs to be moved. I only move them once I write my short review. Time to write a couple of reviews I guess.....
The book is on the career of Norbert Hanning. Taking up gliders and enjoying the feeling of flight. Eventually joining the Luftwaffe and beginning his military career. After being posted to JG 54 he starts his war on the Eastern Front. From here there are only a few descriptions of some of his victories. Norbert ends up doing some time as an instructor and talks about having to engage bombers while still working as an instructor.
Norbert finishes his time as an instructor and ends up in the Courland pocket where he claims some more victories. He also gets qualified on the ME262 but does not mention any victories achieved in this plane. With the war over, he joins the multitude of other soldiers trying to make it to the Western powers to surrender, sometimes in a group of by himself. The way he ends up surrendering, by himself, is interesting....by 'borrowing' a Storch he 'found'.
I found the book very interesting, another biography of one German soldiers' service in WWII.
Authour: Norbert Hanning
Publisher: Stackpole
ISBN: 978-0-8117-3593-3 (paperback)
Stars: 4.5 (out of 5)
Ok, this pile of books I have read needs to be moved. I only move them once I write my short review. Time to write a couple of reviews I guess.....
The book is on the career of Norbert Hanning. Taking up gliders and enjoying the feeling of flight. Eventually joining the Luftwaffe and beginning his military career. After being posted to JG 54 he starts his war on the Eastern Front. From here there are only a few descriptions of some of his victories. Norbert ends up doing some time as an instructor and talks about having to engage bombers while still working as an instructor.
Norbert finishes his time as an instructor and ends up in the Courland pocket where he claims some more victories. He also gets qualified on the ME262 but does not mention any victories achieved in this plane. With the war over, he joins the multitude of other soldiers trying to make it to the Western powers to surrender, sometimes in a group of by himself. The way he ends up surrendering, by himself, is interesting....by 'borrowing' a Storch he 'found'.
I found the book very interesting, another biography of one German soldiers' service in WWII.
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