Definitive account of the last great Luftwaffe attack of World War II Gripping stories of Fw 190s and Bf 109s in combat Contains hundreds of eyewitness accounts and rare photos In the early morning of January 1 1945 as the Battle of the Bulge smoldered to an end the German Luftwaffe–assumed to be starved of fuel and fighting spirit–launched a massive surprise low-level strike on Allied airfields throughout France Belgium and Holland an operation code-named Bodenplatte. More than 900 German aircraft took to the skies and attacked the vulnerable fields destroying 200 Allied aircraft and damaging 150 more. In a pyrrhic victory the Luftwaffe lost 271 fighters with many more damaged and 213 pilots–irreplaceable losses at this stage of the war.
Bodenplatte: The Luftwaffe’s Last Hope (Stackpole Military History Series)
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