Thursday, 29 February 2024

retrieving a belly-landed JG 26 Emil - archive photo scan #15 (and 6 Million page views on the blog!)

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  FalkeEins- the Luftwaffe blog, now 1,360 published posts and sometime yesterday the blog received its 6 millionth 'hit' - that...
Friday, 23 February 2024

Fw 190 A-6 'Green 13', Walter Oesau, Stab./JG 1 - ebay photo find #366

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  Manuel Rauh ebay sale, see link at the bottom. Three images of one of Oesau's Fw 190 A-6s. This 'green 13', according to th...
Saturday, 17 February 2024

5./KG 100 Heinkel He 177 A-5 and crew - archive photo scan #14

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  Via Ulf Balke collection. Heinkel He 177 A-5/K.IV seen in or around May 1944 in II./KG 100 at Aalborg.  - in other words a He 177 A-5 f...
Wednesday, 14 February 2024

1/Lt Walt Konantz 338th FS, 55th FG - archive photo scan #12

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  a few notes from 1/Lt Walt Konantz's logbook  (338th FS, 55th FG) August 12, 1944; - ground strafing and dive bombing in Nancy-Verdun ...
Saturday, 10 February 2024

" Die Laval Affaire " - last flight of the Luftwaffe, July 1945

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On 9 April (1945) the Luftwaffe General Italien reported 14 Ju 188 D-2s on the strength of 4.(F) and 6.(F)/122 of which 12 were servicea...
Sunday, 4 February 2024

Hptm. Wilhelm Schmitter RK and his II./KG 40 Do 217 E & Me 410 V./KG 2 - Bundesarchiv photo report

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  Two recent posts have covered Do 217 'pirate' bombing raids and Me 410 intruder ops over England. Here is one pilot who flew both ...
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Saturday, 3 February 2024

new and forthcoming Luftwaffe books - Eastern Front 1945

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  " For the first time, this book outlines how air power helped win the war on the Eastern Front..[..].. the VVS assembled 7,500 aircra...