
Clean Sweep
VIII Fighter Command Against the Luftwaffe, 1942–45
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Lance C. Fuller
Bloomsbury presents Clean Sweep by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, read by Lance C Fuller.
A vivid history, packed with first-hand accounts, of the US Eighth Air Force's VIII Fighter Command from its foundation in 1942 through to its victory in the skies over Nazi Germany.
On August 7, 1942, two major events occurred on opposite sides of the planet. In the South Pacific, the United States went on the offensive with the First Marine Division landing on Guadalcanal. In England, 12 B-17 bombers of Eighth Air Force bombed the Rouen–Sotteville railroad marshalling yards in France. While the mission was small, the aerial struggle that began that day would ultimately cost the United States more men killed and wounded by the end of the war in Europe than the Marines would lose in the Pacific War.
Clean Sweep is the story of the creation, development and operation of the Eighth Air Force Fighter Command and the battle to establish daylight air superiority over the Luftwaffe so that the invasion of Europe could be successful.
Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has had a lifelong interest in the history of the fighter force that defeated the Luftwaffe over Germany. He has collected many first-hand accounts from participants over the past 50 years, getting to know pilots such as the legendary “Hub” Zemke, Don Blakeslee and Chuck Yeager, as well as meeting and interviewing leading Luftwaffe pilots Adolf Galland, Gunther Rall and Walter “Count Punski” Krupinski. This story is told through accounts gathered from both sides.
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Outstanding!
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home. I never would have been born. Greatest Generation for sure.
My Dad flew a B~17.
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Lots of firsthand detail
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Compared unfavorably to Masters of the Air
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A great review of WWII aviation
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Good factual stories and first hand accounts make it easy to listen to. Great reference to historical events told from both sides. My only criticism is the error regarding General Frank Maxwell Andrew’s death as his did not die in Greenland but his airplane crashed into a mountain called Fagradalsfjall near Keflavík Iceland.
Very comprehensive and enjoyable
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Every bombing mission and dog fight
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may be factual but poorly written
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probably shouldn't be an audiobook
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