The daylight strategic air campaign over the German Reich during the
Second World War was one of the longest and most intense air battles in history,
involving thousands of aircraft, dozens of units, and hundreds of separate
aerial engagements. Day Fighters in Defence of the Reich presents a unique look
at the German defences as they struggled to cope with the threat posed by the
two American strategic air forces which were charged with destroying
Germany’s critical war industries and
wresting control of the air over the Reich from the Luftwaffe.
The previous volume in this series, The Luftwaffe over Germany is a
narrative history of these defences. The present book extends the story in an
unprecedented fashion, and is based on documents in the German, American and
British government archives and German pilot logbooks from the author’s
extensive collection.
