Stormbird – Flying through fire as a Luftwaffe ground attack pilot and Me 262 ace
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Characteristics
| Book cover finish | Hardcover ( rounded spine binding ) |
| Special features | Dust jacket |
| Condition | Like New |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Published date | First published in Great Britain in 2000 |
| Language | English |
| Size | 29.85 x 20.96 x 1.91 cm |
| Author | Hermann Buchner |
| Editor | Hikoki Publications Ltd |
Description
Bomber pilots who become fighter aces are rare; Hermann Buchner was one. The author, a Luftwaffe NCO pilot and Knight's Cross holder, gives a riveting account of his train- ing with the pre-war Austrian airforce, in- structing with the Luftwaffe, then the terri- fying ground attack operations on the East- ern Front trying to stop the Russian mincing machine.
Serving alongside many well- known aces, sometimes taking off from his home airfield while under Soviet shellfire, he paints a picture of a man surviving against incredible odds, who became one of the elite with JG7, and learnt that the important thing with the Me 262 was to land near a conven- ient foxhole...
Jacket cover picture: 0820, 20 October 1944, as Oberfeldwebel Hermann Buchner of Kommando Nowotny climbs through the winter clouds on a test flight from Lechfeld in Messerschmitt Me 262A-1a 'White 7. The flight lasted 27 minutes.
He made an- other at 1630 in the same aircraft, his 2,405th flight since the beginning of World War II.
Luftwaffe camou- flage was going through a period of transition at this time so the aircraft is shown here in the RLM 81/82/ 76 scheme which was then being generally introduced.