This book is written by a strafer about pilots and aircrews being strafers in their air war in the deadly low-altitude skies, where they fought with aircraft guns and cannon in battle with the enemy and his weapons on the ground. Many specific actions and missions, heavy on firsthand accounts and backed by extensive gun camera film evidence, combine to show strafing's major and varied role in war as well as the core story of warrior duty, valor and sacrifice. The writing of this book was much the same as it would be for a book on a particular football Super Bowl where readers might know very little or nothing about football and other Super Bowls. Yet, that is the case for this book on World War II strafing, as some of its readers might have little knowledge of strafing. To remedy that, the tie-in history contained in salutes to prior and later wars includes limited basics of strafing in those wars as a primer on strafing history. These are my summaries, as a strafer, of what I gleaned from references on World War I and from my own and other pilots' experiences in later wars, which should help readers better see and appreciate "our story" in history.
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