Stormbird: Flying Through Fire As a Luftwaffe Ground-Attack Pilot and Me 262 Ace

Stormbird: Flying Through Fire As a Luftwaffe Ground-Attack Pilot and Me 262 Ace by Buchner, Hermann. hardcover edition. ISBN: 8601415743609.

Bomber pilots who become fighter aces are rare-Hermann Buchner was one. A Luftwaffe NCO pilot and Knights Cross holder, the author gives a riveting account of his training with the pre-war Austrian airforce, instructing with the Luftwaffe, then the terrifying ground attack operations on the Eastern Front trying to stop the Russian mincing machine. 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 learned that the important thing with the Me 262 was to land near a convenient foxhole . . .