by Andrew Arthy | Jul 3, 2018 | Bf 109, Eastern Front, Fw 190, Jagdgeschwader 11, Jagdgeschwader 51, Jagdgeschwader 52, Ju 87, Luftwaffe, Research, Schlachtgeschwader 1, Schlachtgeschwader 10
By 3 July 1944 the Soviet summer offensive, Operation BAGRATION, had soundly defeated the German Heeresgruppe Mitte, and was in the process of securing one of its major objectives, the city of Minsk. Thousands of German troops from 4. Armee had already been taken...
by Andrew Arthy | May 25, 2018 | 2.(H)/14, Bf 109, Bf 110, Fi 156, Frontline, Hs 126, Mediterranean, North Africa, Publications, Research
Part Two of our history of German short-range reconnaissance unit 2.(H)/14 is now available from the Air War Publications website. In this concluding section, Andrew Arthy and Adam Thompson take the story from November 1941 through to the end of the war. As was the...
by Andrew Arthy | Apr 2, 2018 | A Little Bit of Everything, Bf 109, Jagdgeschwader 2, Luftwaffe, Pilots, Research, Western Front
After the German occupation of France in the early summer of 1940, a minor landing ground near a small town in northern France became a vital base for the fighter aircraft of Jagdgeschwader 2. This small town was Beaumont-le-Roger, and the nearby airfield would be a...
by Andrew Arthy | Mar 5, 2018 | 2.(H)/14, A Little Bit of Everything, Hs 126, Luftwaffe Units, North Africa, Research
As an accompaniment to our two-part eArticle outlining the history of German reconnaissance unit 2.(H)/14, today we share with you some fascinating photographs of the architectural remains of the unit’s rest home at Apollonia, as it appeared only a couple of...
by Andrew Arthy | Feb 10, 2018 | 2.(H)/14, eArticles, Luftwaffe, North Africa, Publications
One of our loyal readers has been kind enough to review ‘Rommel’s Eyes Over the Battlefield: Stories of 2.(H)/14 – Part One’. Here is what he had to say about the eArticle, which is available here: Rommel’s Eyes Over the Battlefield: Stories of...
