Sunday, 29 October 2023

Death of the Kommandeur - Maj. Helmut Fuhrhop I./KG 6 (Junkers Ju 188 E)

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  Above; I./KG 6 Ju 188 E medium bombers were based in Chièvres, south of Brussels for the Steinbock raids over England during the first qua...
Saturday, 28 October 2023

..somewhere in the East - archive photo scan (4)

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  Panje ponies and cart on a muddy field in the vicinity of a Feldflugplatz field strip. Click on the image to view large. Below, a closer ...
Saturday, 21 October 2023

Paris, Buc or Le Bourget , summer 1941, Fw 190 'Fronterprobung' flight tests in II./JG 26 Otto Behrens - archive photo scan (4)

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  Above; Göring and staff examine the Fw 190 A-1 'brown 4' probably in Buc, Paris during August 1941. Göring - in pale blue uniform ...
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Friday, 20 October 2023

"..a flight from Larissa (Greece) to Salonika " , April 1941 - archive photo scan (3)

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  ..the inscription on the back of this image reads " ..a flight from Larissa (Greece) to Salonika.. " (Thessaloniki, Greece).. ...
Wednesday, 18 October 2023

Kurt Ubben, Kommandeur III./JG 77 - photo archive scan (2)

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  Kurt Ubben first saw combat with II./186, the so-called Träger or 'carrier' Gruppe established in November 1938 as a carrier f...
Tuesday, 17 October 2023

He 115 in Reval fitted with ice skids

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  having recently acquired a 'proper' scanner (Epson V330) thanks to a friend, I'm experimenting with some 'test' scans....
Tuesday, 10 October 2023

JG 77 in Italy, September/October 1943 and the Macchi C 205 in JG 77 service - were there any aces ?

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  On 3 September 1943, the soldiers of the British XIII Corps mounted amphibious landings on the Italian 'boot' and 'invaded...