Tactics & techniques developed by VIII Fighter Command / prepared by the Analysis Section, Army Air Forces Evaluation Board, undated/

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United States. Army Air Forces. Evaluation Board. Analysis Section. Tactics & techniques developed by VIII Fighter Command / prepared by the Analysis Section, Army Air Forces Evaluation Board, undated/

Tactics & techniques developed by VIII Fighter Command / prepared by the Analysis Section, Army Air Forces Evaluation Board, undated/

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64550324

General description of the collection: This collection consists of a negative photostat of a report entitled, "Tactics & techniques developed by VIII Fighter Command" prepared by the Analysis Section, Army Air Forces Evaluation Board. The original report was prepared on 27 October 1944 as "a consideration of tactics and techniques as developed by VIII Fighter Command, Eighth Air Force." The report is divided into three sections. The first section describes the performance characteristics of types of fighters used by the VIII Fighter Command pilots and by their German opponents. The second section describes the tactics of fighter escorts for bombing runs, and the third section describes the strafing techniques of escort fighters. All three sections include excerpts of interviews with U.S. fighter pilots from the VIII Fighter Command. The report also contains charts and graphs, photographs (negative photostats) of planes and photographs of strafing runs taken from the 16mm film reels carried in the noses of VIII Fighter Command planes. Captured German military documents and interviews with German prisoners of war provide the enemy's point of view on the American's tactics.

1 folder.

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