Thursday, 28 November 2024

November 2024 visit to the ECPA-D

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  The Luftwaffe blog is just back from a week at one of the world's great photographic archives - the ECPA-D in the southern Paris subur...
Monday, 25 November 2024

Ju 52 Transporter KG zbV 1 - ebay photo find #382

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Crash-landed Ju 52 of KG z.b.V 1 with the Berlin bear as Geschwaderwappen (black on a yellow background). While there seems to be an is...
Saturday, 23 November 2024

St.G 2 Ju 87 im Osten, October 1941 - ebay photo find #381

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  Soldaten des Pz.Rgt.29 bei Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" mit Truppenkennzeichen der Sturzkampfgeschwader 2 im Osten, 1941.    This is ...
Monday, 18 November 2024

Eugen Gremelsbacher, Bildberichter Fallschirmjäger A.O.K (formerly XI. Flieger.Korps), Heinkel 'Zwilling' and Gotha Go 242 transfer flight from France to Sicily

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  To bolster their forces preparing to defend the Allied landings in Sicily, the Germans organised an ‘air bridge’ to bring in reinforc...
Saturday, 16 November 2024

RAD 'Arbeitsmann' on airfield guard duty -Instapic #18

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   RAD 'Reichsarbeitsdienst' (labour service) personnel were often employed as airfield 'guards'. Here an 'Arbeitsmann...
Thursday, 31 October 2024

SS Fallschirmjäger Btl. 500 Drvar May 1944, "Rösselsprung" - ebay photo find #380

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   "Rösselsprung" was a failed German airborne and ground operation aimed at capturing or killing the Yugoslav Partisan leader Mar...

296 Verlag set to close

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  Some sad news. According to the email that just dropped, Dr Kurt Braatz is closing his 296 Verlag at the end of the year. 296 Verlag has...