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Upcoming Book: Night Fighters over the Eastern Front

by Morten Jessen | Nov 19, 2022 | Bf 110, Books, Crimea, Do 17, Do 217, Eastern Front, Fw 189, Ju 88, Kursk, Luftflotte 4, Luftwaffe, Nachtjagdgeschwader 100, Nachtjagdgeschwader 101, Nachtjagdgeschwader 5, Publications, Romania, VVS

For some time now, Sven Carlsen, Morten Jessen and Adam Thompson have been working together to write an expansive account of Luftwaffe night fighter operations over the Eastern Front. Based on an extensive collection of German primary sources, including logbooks of...

Over Sea and Land: A History of Küstenfliegergruppe and Kampfgruppe 806

by Adam Thompson | Oct 21, 2022 | Battle of Britain, eArticles, Eastern Front, Frontline, He 111, Ju 88, Kampfgeschwader 54, Kampfgruppe 806, Küstenfliegergruppe 806, Leningrad, Luftwaffe, Luftwaffe Units, Mediterranean, Pilots, Publications, Research, Sicily, Western Front

It has been a while since the last Air War Publications eArticle release, but we now have a brand new story available: ‘Over Land and Sea – A History of Küstenfliegergruppe and Kampfgruppe 806’ When Germany went to war in September 1939, it did so...

Interview with Christer Bergström

by Morten Jessen | Sep 3, 2022 | A Little Bit of Everything, Books, Eastern Front, Pilots, Publications, Research, Ta 152

The Air War Publications team has known of Swedish researcher and author Christer Bergström since the early 2000s because of his Black Cross/Red Star books, a series for which he is highly respected and well-known. Our first contact with him was in 2004 and he has...

Close Shave for a Junkers 188 Crew

by Andrew Arthy | Jun 10, 2022 | 106.IAD, 4.(F)/14, 441.IAP, Eastern Front, Fernaufklärungsgruppe 2, Frontline, Hurricane, Ju 188, Luftwaffe, Luftwaffe Units, Pilots, Research, VVS, Yak-7

The Junkers 188 was a very capable reconnaissance aircraft, and it was vital to the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front in the final years of the Second World War. Ju 188 crews ranged far and wide over Soviet territory, providing vital intelligence on enemy troop and...

Battling for Budapest: Luftflotte 4 in December 1944

by Andrew Arthy | May 30, 2021 | Aces, Bf 109, Eastern Front, Frontline, Fw 190, Jagdgeschwader 52, Ju 87, Luftflotte 4, Luftwaffe, Pilots, Research, Schlachtgeschwader 10, Schlachtgeschwader 2, VVS

In the final months of 1944, the Germans and Soviets were locked in a bitter battle for the Hungarian city of Budapest, and the Luftwaffe played its part in this fighting. The Red Army had begun an offensive in Romania in the late-summer of 1944, and by October 1944...

Flying Backwards into War – Swimming Forwards into a Life Beyond the War

by Adam Thompson | May 2, 2021 | A Little Bit of Everything, Aces, Bf 110, Crimea, eArticles, Eastern Front, Frontline, Luftwaffe, Luftwaffe Units, Mediterranean, Moscow, North Africa, Pilots, Publications, Schnellkampfgeschwader 210, Sicily, Tunisia, Zerstörergeschwader 1

In June 2020, Air War Publications released an eArticle researched and written by Tim Oliver about Martin Heinze – a Bf 110 gunner who flew with many notable pilots, including 47-victory ace Herbert Kutscha. At the time, neither Tim nor the Air War Publications...