Achtung Jabo! - Les Chasseurs Bombardiers Allies de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale

French Language book. “Achtung Jabo!” This simple warning cry in a German column could spread fear among a troop without any means of anti-aircraft protection in the face of the firepower of Allied fighter-bombers appearing in the sky to drop their bombs, fire their salvos of rockets and machine-gun their ranks. A key element in the all-out war waged against the Axis forces at the tactical level by the American, British and, to a lesser extent, Soviet air forces from 1941 to 1945, Allied fighter-bombers had a full influence on the course of events by inflicting severe losses on the combat units of the Wehrmacht, the Japanese army and the Regio Esercito, as well as on their logistic columns in the immediate rear of the battlefield, not to mention the direct support provided to friendly ground units. From the first RAF raids on the coast of occupied Europe to the ground attacks supporting the invasion of the Reich, via the A-36 Apaches and the P-40s in Asia-Pacific as well as the P-39 Airacobras supplied by the Americans to the Soviet Air Force, Luc Vangansbeke tells us the story of these planes which contributed decisively to the Allied victory during the Second World War.