Ace of Aces by Robert Taylor - Aviation Art

Ace of Aces By Robert Taylor     SOLD OUT... but We may still be able to secure it for you. To learn more, please call us at 1-800-545-9464  Also available as a Giclee. Please call for more details. On 8 May 1945, the last day of the war in Europe, Erich Hartmann took off for one final mission. Over the city of Brno in Czechoslovakia, he spotted a pair of enemy Yak-9s performing impromptu aerobatics for Soviet troops on the ground. Hartmann, however, upstaged the show and promptly shot one of them down! It was his 352nd aerial victory, a total never likely to be surpassed.To achieve such feats his tactics were simple - ‘Get in so close and you cannot miss’. Words easily said, but doing so required extreme courage and exceptional flying skills, qualities that Hartmann possessed in abundance. During some 1400 combat missions in the hazardous skies over the Eastern Front he was never shot down through enemy action yet still survived 14 crash-landings, many were the result of damage fro