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Fw 190 Fighting Over Southern Italy update

by Morten Jessen | Dec 5, 2013 | A Little Bit of Everything, Publications

Morten has been in Australia for a couple of weeks now, and there has been some really good progress on the writing of the next book in our Fw 190 in the Mediterranean series. We have written a few of the ca. nine chapters of Fw 190 Fighting Over Southern Italy, which...

Morten’s visit to Australia

by Morten Jessen | Nov 19, 2013 | A Little Bit of Everything

In a few days Morten will be arriving in Australia for a two-month stay with Andrew. Part of his trip will be to see the countryside, including a month-long road trip to meet up with Luftwaffe and aviation enthusiasts like Ken Merrick, Russell Guest, Drew Harrison...

Glossary version 2 released

by Morten Jessen | Nov 15, 2013 | A Little Bit of Everything, Publications

Hi all, version 2 of our free glossary includes over 30 new entries and a few corrections, and is now ready for download. In addition, two valuable new sections have been added – a Luftwaffe camouflage colour overview, and a section on aircraft anatomy. The glossary...

New eArticle release!

by Morten Jessen | Nov 8, 2013 | Publications

Air War Publications is very happy to announce a new release, and this time it’s a little different from our usual fare: an article on the Swedish dalliance with the Handley Page Hampden bomber. With war seemingly looming in the 1930s, the Swedes underwent a search...

Handley Page eArticle by Mikael Olrog

by Morten Jessen | Oct 29, 2013 | Publications

Soon to be available for purchase and download is our new electronic article about the service of the Handley Page Hampden in Swedish service, written by Mikael Olrog. A topic a little different to those we normally publish, we’re very glad to present a really...

1. Wüstennotstaffel eArticle coming up soon

by Morten Jessen | Oct 22, 2013 | Fi 156, Publications, Wüstennotstaffel

Air War Publications has another exciting eArticle nearing completion, this time about the German desert rescue squadron, the 1. Wüstennotstaffel. This unique unit, equipped with the remarkable Fieseler Storch STOL aircraft, served as a multi-purpose squadron for the...

Working on Jagdgeschwader 2 aces articles

by Morten Jessen | Oct 18, 2013 | Aces, Bf 109, Fw 190, Jagdgeschwader 2, Publications, Western Front

We’ve been working on them for a while, and several biographies of Jagdgeschwader 2 aces are nearing completion. There will be three standalone biographies of the following prominent stalwarts of the Richthofen Geschwader: Erich Hohagen (Ritterkreuz and 56-victory...

London visit

by Andrew Arthy | Sep 10, 2013 | A Little Bit of Everything, Research

Hey folks, Andrew here. Just a quick note about my trip to London, which was really productive and enjoyable. I photographed 9,000 pages of documents at the National Archives (amongst which were some real gems), including material for the Courland project, the Fw 190...

Off to London and the National Archives …

by Morten Jessen | Sep 2, 2013 | A Little Bit of Everything, Research

Andrew is heading off today on a 6-day trip to London ... and of course he is going to spend the majority of his time at the British National Archives in Kew. He will be searching for files relating to his Courland project, as well as late-war intelligence documents,...

Visiting the Danish Military Library

by Morten Jessen | Aug 1, 2013 | Research

The past few days Andrew and Morten had a visit from our friend and profile artist, Claes Sundin. We visited the Danish Military Library (heaven ... according to Andrew - note bags in hand full of books), and also persuaded Claes to make a new Luftwaffe aircraft type.