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Beware the Thunderbolt!: The 56th Fighter Group in World War II
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Beware the Thunderbolt!: The 56th Fighter Group in World War II Hardcover - 1994

by David R. McLaren; Foreword by Hub Zemke


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With names like Zemke, Schilling, Gabreski, Mahurin and Johnson, the 56th Fighter Group was, and still is, one of the legendary fighter units of World War II. BEWARE THE THUNDERBOLT ( the apt official motto of the 56th) is the story of the 56th Fighter Group in a chronological narrative of their combat missions. Composed of heroic pilots that aggressively took the air war into the enemy heartland in 1943, the "Wolfpack's" P-47 Thunderbolt contrails crossed high in the upper stratosphere as they escorted heavy bomber missions, or fell upon the enemy on the ground as their pilots destroyed over 1000 Luftwaffe aircraft. The story is also coupled with their post-war history of innovative Mustang missions to Alaska, and the first trans-Atlantic jet fighter missions in the P-80 Shooting Star. The foreword is by Hub Zemke, former commander of the 56th Fighter Group. David McLaren is also the author of Lockheed F-94 Starfire (with Marty Isham), available from Schiffer Publishing.

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  • Title Beware the Thunderbolt!: The 56th Fighter Group in World War II
  • Author David R. McLaren; Foreword by Hub Zemke
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Schiffer Military, Atglen, PA
  • Date October 1994
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780887406607 / 0887406602
  • Weight 2.6 lbs (1.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.1 x 8.8 x 0.9 in (28.19 x 22.35 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94066968
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.544
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