The two best I've read are:
Mustang Ace by Bob Goebels, 31st FG. Goebels was an 11-kill ace in Italy with the 15th AF. You don't get to see much info on the MTO from the US side because the reporters liked England better.
The War Diary of Helmet Lipfert by Helmet Lipfert, JG 52.
Lipfert was a 203-kill ace on the Eastern Front. Great book. Doesn't say much about the whole politics surrounding German flyers, mostly concentrates on the air war over Russia. Something else you don't see much about. Helps you understand how the LW acheived such high kill totals. Lipfert flew 2 and sometimes 3 times a day, and ran into the VVS almost every hop. Plus he was shot down around 10 times
. Shows that the LW flyers that got big numbers had an amazing amount of both skill and luck.
Two other great books are:
To Fly and Fight by Bud Anderson, 357th FG.
HERKY! Memoirs of a Checktertail Ace by Herschel Green, 325th FG.
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352nd Fighter Group"The Blue Nosed Bastards of Bodney" "Credo quia absurdum est." (I believe it because it is unreasonable)
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