Seenotflugkommando 2 and Battle of Britain Day
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
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
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
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...
The Life of Barry Gale eArticle Available
A new biography eArticle is now available, this time telling the story of an important but little-known Australian fighter pilot and unit leader, Barry E. Gale, who served with distinction over Europe, North Africa and the Mediterranean. The eArticle is available on...
4. Flieger-Division on 3 July 1944
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...
The Value of the National Archives in Researching the Luftwaffe
Part of the fun of research is in tracking down new information and filling in the blanks. And when dealing with the Luftwaffe, there are a lot of blanks! This is because thousands of records pertaining to operations, losses, movements, orders, and a plethora of other...
Part Two of the 2.(H)/14 eArticle available
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...
Beaumont-le-Roger Then and Now
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...
2.(H)/14 Rest Home at Apollonia
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 years...
