Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 54 : Romanian Aces of World War 2

The Royal Romanian Air Force had been allied to the Luftwaffe since the Romanian government signed a Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy in November 1940 and first saw action in the wake of the German invasion of the USSR in June 1941. This book reveals how, despite suffering heavy losses to the numerically superior Russian forces, the Romanians inflicted even greater casualties on the Soviet forces. Locked in bitter conflict with the Soviets until September 1944, when the Red Army poured across the Romanian frontier and forced an armistice, the modest fighter force claimed 1500+ kills using primarily Bf 109s. Text by Denes Bernad with illustrations by John Weal.