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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...

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...

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...

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...

The Life of Barry Gale eArticle Available

by Andrew Arthy | Jul 27, 2018 | eArticles, No. 111 Squadron, P-51 Mustang, Pilots, Publications, RAF, Spitfire, Tunisia, Western Front

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 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...