by Andrew Arthy | Dec 29, 2018 | eArticles, Eastern Front, Hs 123, Kursk, Luftwaffe, Moscow, Pilots, Publications, Stalingrad
Following on from Part One, which was very well received, Air War Publications is very happy to announce the release of Part Two of Morten’s Henschel 123 eArticle. This part takes the story from September 1939 through to the end of the Hs 123’s wartime...
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...
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...
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...
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 | Oct 19, 2017 | Aces, Bf 109, Courland, Eastern Front, Frontline, Fw 190, Jagdgeschwader 51, Luftwaffe, P-39 Airacobra, Pe-2, Pilots, Publications, Research, VVS
19 September 1944 was another busy day in the Courland air war, and this blog post outlines one of the most significant combats to occur. Soviet units from the 3. Vozdushnaya Armiya (3.VA, or 3rd Air Army) flew 1.404 sorties over the south-eastern corner of Courland...
