Join me Monday June 20th at the Federal Restaurant 1438 Dundas St West, Toronto for the launch of Fighting Cockpits. Festivities start at 7:30.
Tag Archives: air combat
Air Combat 1945 available this September!
Air Combat 1945. New book available in September!
Air Combat 1945 features over 300 black & white and colour photographs with detailed captions chronicling the last eight months of aerial combat in World War II. It includes all the major combatants: Britain, Canada, USA, Germany, Russia, Italy, and Japan. A must for World War II buffs, scholars, historians and modellers. Published by Stackpole […]
Who Shot Down the First Me 262 Jet during World War II?
Credit for the first Me 262 be brought down in combat belong to Maj Joseph Myers and 2Lt Manford Crory of the P-47D-equipped 78th Fighter Group, who manoeuvred a 1./KG 51 machine into the ground west of Brussels on August 28, 1944. This occurred with a shot being fired by both sides. A similar thing occurred […]