AVIATION ELITE UNITS No 20 LUFTWAFFE STURMGRUPPEN

The "Stormtroopers" of the Luftwaffe, the Sturmgruppen pilots were fanatical defenders of the Reich. In a desperate attempt to deal a single knock-out blow to the Allied daylight bomber offensive, an outstanding band of Luftwaffe fighter pilots volunteered to be organised into elite bomber destroyer units known as Sturmgruppen, or "assault wings". Pilots in these units were trained to engage the enemy in close-quarter combat. Through first-hand accounts and rare archival photography, this book chronicles the brief but violent career of the Sturmgruppen during the dark days of 1944. No other concise history of the Sturmgruppen is in print in English. Colour plates by the author.