ON MY PORCH THIS MORNING
Almost tripped over the box, which was sitting on the porch right in front of the front door step, this morning when I went out to compare the weather forecast with personal experience. Spring has definitely finally sprung here in L.A., after the longest winter I can remember in 50 years here.
“Clean Sweep: VIII Fighter Command Against the Luftwaffe 1942-45” - my biggest book (185,000 words) and thus most expensive (NSRP $35, but should be cheaper at Amazon as sales pick up - already down to $32 in re-orders).
Foreword by my friend BGEN Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson, last living VIII Fighter Command ace (102 this coming month).
Release date is May 23.
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I’m excited to buy a copy for my son. His first love at age 5 was the P-51 Mustang. By 2nd grade he had devoured every book his school and the public library had on WWII aircraft. (I was cautioned at the public library that I was responsible for the expensive cocktail table books I checked out.)
At age 7 he could describe each WWII aircraft in great detail, Allied and Axis, including crew, flight range, wingspan, armament, ammunition payload, and anything else you cared to ask. This focus continued for several years, finally being supplanted by Battletech in middle school.
CLEAN SWEEP is a vivid account by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver of VIII Fighter Command.
Its primary missions were to command fighter operations of the Eighth Air Force in the European Theater of World War II and to attain air superiority over the Luftwaffe. Two North American P-51 Mustangs, perhaps, on the way to a head-on attack get readers off to a fast start on the cover of
CLEAN SWEEP. “Blue skies and tail-winds for you', Tom!