Author: Davis, Larry,
Title: 56TH FIGHTER GROUP.
Description: Squadron / Signal Publications, Carrollton, ND (copyright 1991) US edn.,paperback, 64pp, numerous coloured and half tone ills. in text, oversize (11 x 8.5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial wrappers, a pictorial account of the top scoring Fighter Group in the 8th Air Force during WW2, comprising 61st, 62nd and 63rd Fighter Squadrons flying P47 Thunderbolts. The account includes the 56th's return to the USA and disbandment in late 1945 and then reactivation in 1946 flying jets in an Air Defense role, which included squadrons flying a number of different types including Lockheed Shooting Star and Starfire, the McDonnel Voodoo, the North American Sabre and Sabre Dog and the Northrop Scorpion. During the Vietnam war as the 56th Special Operations Wing the Group carried out a number of unconventional roles, a little rubbed and lightly creased at extrems., ownership label inside front wrapper, very good,

Keywords: war ww2 usaaf fighter p47 thunderbolt air defence defense vietnam


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