Having met - and, indeed, befriended - a good many veterans of Ⅷ Fighter Command, the author of this new volume is extremely well-placed to both tell the story of their war over Europe from 1942-45 and set it in the wider context. While there have been many books on the US Army Air Forces' fighter and bomber operations from Britain during the Second World War, few, surely, have been as well-written as this. McKelvey Cleaver begins with a highly vivid account of events on 28 July 1943, which he calls "the most important day in the history of Ⅷ Fighter Command" owing to its significant successes against Luftwaffe opposition, before moving on to the historical background - the American military build-up to hostilities, the evolution of the different fighter types - prior to the main narrative. This gets under way with the earliest Ⅷ FC sorties, courtesy the 31st Fighter Group's Spitfires in August 1942.
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机译：这本新书的作者遇到了许多 VIII. 战斗机司令部的退伍军人，并且确实成为了朋友，他非常适合讲述他们 1942-45 年在欧洲的战争故事，并将其置于更广泛的背景下。虽然有很多关于二战期间美国陆军航空队从英国起飞的战斗机和轰炸机行动的书籍，但肯定很少有人写得像这样好。麦凯维·克利弗（McKelvey Cleaver）首先非常生动地描述了1943年7月28日的事件，他称之为“第八章历史上最重要的一天。 战斗机司令部”，因为它在对抗德国空军反对派方面取得了重大成功，然后继续讨论历史背景 - 美国军事为敌对行动而集结，不同战斗机类型的演变 - 在主要叙述之前。1942 年 8 月，第 31 战斗机大队的喷火战斗机起飞，这是最早的 VIII. FC 架次。
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