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Mediterranean Sweep - Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

Mediterranean Sweep

The USAAF in the Italian Campaign
Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2025
Osprey Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4728-6345-4 (ISBN)
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Filled with personal accounts of the action, this book details the USAAF’s tactical and strategic campaigns in the skies over Italy in World War II.

With the defeat of the Germans and Italians on Sicily in mid-July 1943, all eyes turned towards the battle for the Italian mainland itself. This campaign has been called “forgotten” by many, with many of the best units from the North African and Sicilian campaigns withdrawn to prepare for the coming invasion of France, while those units that remained had a lower priority for replacements of men and material.

Despite these difficulties, the air war in the Italian campaign is a study in the successful application of tactical air power. Mediterranean Sweep describes how USAAF forces, alongside Free French, Italian co-belligerent forces, British and Commonwealth units and even a squadron of the Brazilian Air Force, took the war to the Axis in both the fighter-bomber war as well as Operation Bingo, the successful bombing campaign to strangle supplies to the German forces fighting on the Gothic Line.

Building on the story of the USAAF in North Africa and over Sicily told in his previous work Turning the Tide, renowned aviation expert Tom Cleaver uses a wide range of first-hand accounts form American, Allied, German and Italian pilots and other aircrew to bring to life the bitter struggle in the skies over Italy from mid-1943 through to the end of World War II.

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has been a published writer for the past 40 years, with his work including the best-selling Osprey titles The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club (2021), Going Downtown (2022), The Cactus Air Force (2022) alongside the late Eric Hammel, Clean Sweep (2023), and most recently Turning The Tide (2024). Tom served in the US Navy in Vietnam and currently lives in Encino, California.

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Introduction
Chapter One: Sicily
Chapter Two: Invaders
Chapter Three: Invading Italy
Chapter Four: Hun Hunters
Chapter Five: USS Corsica
Chapter Six: The Forgotten Fifteenth
Chapter Seven: The Blackest Day
Chapter Eight: Red Tails
Chapter Nine: Piggyback in a P-38
Chapter Ten: Operation Bingo

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.3.2025
Zusatzinfo 16-page black and white plate section
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-4728-6345-3 / 1472863453
ISBN-13 978-1-4728-6345-4 / 9781472863454
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