Download or read book America's Top Eighth Air Force Aces in Their Own Words written by William Hess and published by . This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After each mission, America's World War II pilots were required by armed forces regulation to submit a report, written in their own words, of that day's events in the wartorn skies over Europe or the Pacific. This collection features a selection of those reports from the greatest American aces of the war -- Francis Gabreski, George Preddy, Hubert Zemke, Richard Bong, Richard McGuire, Chuck Yeager and others -- who recount engaging German and Japanese pilots in dogfights, tearing through enemy bomber formations, getting peppered with enemy machine-gun fire and nursing crippled Mustangs, Thunderbolts and Lightnings back to base. Photos of the aces and their aircraft, along with appendices listing names, units and victories, make this an invaluable reference for any aviation or history enthusiast.