SWANSONG
by Robert Taylor

By the time Gunther Rall led the FW-190s of JG-300 on their last combat mission of WWII, he had established himself as perhaps the most remarkable of all fighter pilots. Having joined the war in its early stages Rall took part in the Battle of France, and Battle of Britain and campaigns in Crete and Rumania before being posted to the Russian front. By 1944 he was back on the Western Front again commanding successively JG-11 and JG-300 Fighter Wings flying the long-nose Focke Wulf 190 in the final defence of Germany. He flew 800 missions, suffered 3 severe injuries, survived 7 forced landings, a mid-air collision and brought his tally of air victories to 275. He flew against the top aces of the RAF in the early part of the war and did battle with the aggressive fighter pilots of the USAAF after D-Day in the defence of Germany. In spite of a long period of immobility in 1941/42, after crash-landing and breaking his back, he still recorded the third highest number of air victories in the history of air fighting. Robert Taylor has recreated the scene, high over Germany as the last morning of combat breaks, and the final dramas of the great air war are played out, Rall leads his FW-190 pilots into combat with P-51s of the USAAF for the last time. Signed by Gunther Rall and Robert Taylor.

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