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Merry Christmas 2018

by Andrew Arthy | Dec 25, 2018 | A Little Bit of Everything, Aces, B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, Bf 109, Italy, Jagdgeschwader 51, Jagdgeschwader 53, Luftwaffe, Mediterranean, P-38 Lightning, Pilots, USAAF

We hope our readers and followers have a Merry Christmas with their families, and enjoy the holiday season. Andrew and Morten have a little time off over the festive season, so hope to make some progress on a few of our projects. We achieved some of our ambitions in...

The Building of a Desert Fw 190

by Morten Jessen | Dec 15, 2018 | A Little Bit of Everything, Fw 190, Luftwaffe, North Africa

We were recently contacted by Pierre Giustiniani from Marseille, France, a reader of our book Focke-Wulf Fw 190 in North Africa. He had questions about the camouflage of the Fw 190s that flew with Erprobungskommando 19 in North Africa, and specifically Fw 190 A-3 Trop...

The Accuracy of ULTRA

by Andrew Arthy | Nov 20, 2018 | Hs 129, Ju 87, Luftwaffe, Research, Sturzkampfgeschwader 3

In the past there have been some questions asked and discussions had about the accuracy of 'ULTRA', a term used for wartime German signals intercepted and decrypted by the British and their Allied partners. In particular, questions have been asked about the standard...

Luftflotte 1 on 7 November 1944

by Andrew Arthy | Nov 7, 2018 | Aces, Books, Courland, Eastern Front, Frontline, Fw 190, Jagdgeschwader 54, Luftwaffe, Pilots, Publications, Research, Schlachtgeschwader 3, VVS

There was a considerable amount of air activity in the immediate aftermath of the creation of the Courland Pocket in October 1944, but terrible wintry weather set in during early November, almost bringing aerial operations to a complete halt. It was not until the...

Rescue in the Atlantic eArticle

by Adam Thompson | Oct 19, 2018 | Battle of the Atlantic, eArticles, He 115, Luftwaffe, RAF, Sunderland

Air War Publications is pleased to announce the release of our latest eArticle 'Adrift in the Atlantic', and this time it has a nautical theme: the Atlantic rescue of a downed British Coastal Command aircraft crew and their passengers. Tim Oliver has written the...

100 Year Anniversary for the RAF and Battle of Britain Airshow 2018

by Morten Jessen | Sep 28, 2018 | A Little Bit of Everything, B-17 Flying Fortress, Bf 109, Hurricane, Lancaster, Lysander, P-51 Mustang, RAF, Spitfire, Yak-3

The Royal Air Force, or RAF, was formed towards the end of the First World War. It officially came into being on 1 April 1918 and is the oldest, independent air force in the world. This past weekend, Morten attended the Battle of Britain Airshow which was part of the...

Seenotflugkommando 2 and Battle of Britain Day

by Adam Thompson | Sep 15, 2018 | Battle of Britain, He 59, Luftwaffe, Seenotflugkommando 2, Zerstörergeschwader 26

When people think of the Battle of Britain, they tend to bring to mind images of swirling dogfights and iconic press photographs. These images often invoke thoughts of battered men and machines struggling to get home after intense dogfights high above the Kentish...

More Gold Uncovered at Freiburg

by Morten Jessen | Sep 10, 2018 | A Little Bit of Everything, Research

Last week Morten visited the German military archive in Freiburg again, his third visit in the last year. The trip was originally planned to be a three-day stay, but the list of files for both the Hs 123 and Air War Courland book projects, as well as various articles,...

The Henschel Hs 123 Project … Good Progress

by Morten Jessen | Aug 26, 2018 | Books, eArticles, Eastern Front, Hs 123, Lehrgeschwader 2, Luftwaffe, Research, Schlachtgeschwader 1, Schlachtgeschwader 2

Morten was expecting to have the majority of 2018 off from 'real life' work and planned to be able to focus a lot of his attention on the Henschel 123 book project. Although that has not turned out to be the case, good progress has still occurred regardless (and more...

Luftflotte 1 on 11 August 1944

by Andrew Arthy | Aug 11, 2018 | Eastern Front, Fw 190, Ju 87, Luftwaffe, Schlachtgeschwader 3, Schlachtgeschwader 4, VVS

Luftflotte 1 was a badly overstretched air force in mid-August 1944, as it tried to assist Heeresgruppe Nord against several Soviet land offensives in Estonia and Latvia. From north to south, Luftflotte 1 supported: Armeeabteilung Narwa, which occupied a line between...