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Working on Henschel Hs 123 Pilot Interviews

by Morten Jessen | May 13, 2014 | A Little Bit of Everything, Hs 123, Pilots, Research

From February 2008 to June 2011 Morten was fortunate to interview a few Hs 123 pilots on a number of occasions and gain a good insight into their wartime careers as well as how they experienced flying the Hs 123 under various conditions. Most notably Morten...

Part I of Wüstennotstaffel eArticle coming soon

by Morten Jessen | Mar 10, 2014 | Fi 156, North Africa, Publications, Research, Wüstennotstaffel

A lot of material has surfaced since Adam Thompson and Andrew Arthy started digging into the desert activities of this fascinating and unusual unit thirteen months ago. They uncovered far more exciting stories than expected, including run-ins with British elite forces...

Interview with Spitfire pilot Murray Adams

by Morten Jessen | Jan 9, 2014 | A Little Bit of Everything, North Africa, Research, Spitfire

Yesterday we met with 94-year old Murray Adams, a former RAF pilot who flew with 250 and 80 Squadrons and had a very interesting wartime career. The meeting took place in Brisbane at the United Service Club on Wickham Terrace, which required a certain amount of...

London visit

by Andrew Arthy | Sep 10, 2013 | A Little Bit of Everything, Research

Hey folks, Andrew here. Just a quick note about my trip to London, which was really productive and enjoyable. I photographed 9,000 pages of documents at the National Archives (amongst which were some real gems), including material for the Courland project, the Fw 190...

Off to London and the National Archives …

by Morten Jessen | Sep 2, 2013 | A Little Bit of Everything, Research

Andrew is heading off today on a 6-day trip to London … and of course he is going to spend the majority of his time at the British National Archives in Kew. He will be searching for files relating to his Courland project, as well as late-war intelligence...

Visiting the Danish Military Library

by Morten Jessen | Aug 1, 2013 | Research

The past few days Andrew and Morten had a visit from our friend and profile artist, Claes Sundin. We visited the Danish Military Library (heaven … according to Andrew – note bags in hand full of books), and also persuaded Claes to make a new Luftwaffe...