Sunday, 29 September 2024

A modellers guide to the Ju 88 G-6 - John McIllmurray with David E. Brown

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  I just learnt that John McIllmurray's new e-book on the Ju 88 G-6 is available to purchase and download from KLP Publishing. So that...
Friday, 27 September 2024

Theo Boiten - Nachtjagd combat archive - Biographies

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  Theo Boiten's comprehensive operational history of the German night fighter force is now concluded with a final volume of 'Biograp...
Wednesday, 25 September 2024

Ju 88 G-series nightfighters - Dragon Ju 88 G-6 in 48th by VolkerR

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  The G-series were the first Ju 88 variants not based on the Ju 88 bomber ‘A’ fuselage. Re-designed and streamlined, the Ju 88 G-series ...
Tuesday, 24 September 2024

Uffz. Heinz Vinke 5./NJG 2 - first 'kill'

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  A night fighter and his prey. Uffz Heinz Vinke (left) of 5./NJG 2 with his radio operator Uffz Karl Schödel sits proudly on a wing of Wh...
Monday, 23 September 2024

Aces and pilots of JG 51, part 18 - correspondence from Günther Schack (1)

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  Günther Schack (12 November 1917 – 14 June 2003) is usually credited with 174 victories in 780 combat missions, all claimed in the East....
Thursday, 19 September 2024

JG 53 Friedrich, JG 26 Fw 190 -archive photo scan #31

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  'white 8' of II./JG 53 with yellow cowl and spinner somewhere in Holland prior to Barbarossa. Note rough over-painting of the yell...
Monday, 9 September 2024

Le Fana latest issue Sept 2024 - Luftwaffe pilot training in south-western France (excavating an Emil)

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  by Gilles Collaveri "...31 January 1944, Pau, south-west France. Friedrich Kisslinger climbed into the cockpit of a Messerschmitt 1...