Recent content by Andrew Arthy

Hi Tim, Thanks for your post. I did follow that thread on the Axis History Forum, which was quite interesting. It is very unlikely that Harmstorf's combat report survives - most of the wartime Luftwaffe combat reports have been lost - but you might get lucky. It seems that his Flugbuch...

Hi Tim, Pl.Qu. 20 Ost would place it somewhere over central Africa, in the area of South Sudan. Therefore, I suspect it's either not a Luftwaffe map reference, or there is a typo. I checked all the sources I could think of, including the I./Nachtjagdeschwader 2 history from the Bundesarchiv...

Hi Tim, What is your source for Pl.Qu. 20 Ost/4820? That does not match up with the Luftwaffe Pl.Qu. for the El Alamein area: El Alamein is located at Pl.Qu. 23 Ost/8126, and El Daba is at Pl.Qu. 23 Ost/8279. Cheers, Andrew A.

Our latest combat snippet blog post is now up, featuring early Focke-Wulf 190s on the Channel Front in the summer and autumn of 1941: https://airwarpublications.com/early-fw-190s-with-jagdgeschwader-26/. There is a particular focus on the first combat loss of an FW 190, on 18 September 1941. As...

The four most recent additions to my library! Strong to Serve is a good read, and very well researched. The Heinz Gomann (Jagdgeschwader 26) memoirs are written in a different style, as a series of short stories. The Anton Hafner (Jagdgeschwader 51) biography was written by his brother, and...

For those interested in aerial combat on the Western Front in 1944, we've just released our latest blogpost, about the events of 9 September 1944: https://airwarpublications.com/9-september-1944-ii-jagdkorps-attempts-to-intervene/. On that day Messerschmitt 109s and Focke-Wulf 190s from...

Almost inevitably, we have spotted a few errors and omissions in the book, and will publish an errata sheet here in a few months. No matter how carefully you edit a manuscript, there are always things that 'slip through the net'! Cheers, Andrew A.

Andrew Arthy submitted a new resource: Nachtjagd Over The Eastern Front - German night fighters on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945 Read more about this resource...

Hi ggiumarra, Sorry, I didn't see your post until now. To save you a bit of time, here are the relevant pages for 20 October 1944 from HW 13/88. They don't provide much on this particular combat, unfortunately. And also attached is a snip from AIR 22/502, which is a summary of Allied...

No problem at all, I was happy to be able to provide some assistance. Cheers, Andrew A.

Hi habs1976, Happy to help with some information. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any research undertaken to match up German claims with Allied losses in this particular combat. Below is a table with the relevant German victory claims. Rank First Name Surname Staffel Geschwader Type...

Hi habs1976, Not sure if you're interested in the other side of the story, but it was the III. Gruppe of Jagdgeschwader 2 that engaged the 367th FG on this morning. It took off from Altenstadt at 08:10, led by Oberleutnant Siegfried Lemke. Lemke claimed his 50th aerial victory in this...

Hi Greg, Not sure if you've seen the below, from the War Diary of the German Naval High Command: Cheers, Andrew A.

Hi everyone, A new blog post has just been released describing some Kampfgeschwader 4 operations with the Heinkel 111 over Poland on 17 September 1939: 17 September 1939: Instead of Warsaw - Air War Publications. Hopefully this is of interest to the forum. Cheers, Andrew A.

Hi Henry, The Italian daily report on X. Fliegerkorps operations in North Africa noted the following: "10 Me. 110 hanno attaccato gli obiettivi militari nei pressi di Tobruk a sud-ovest del forte Pilastrino. Forti colonne ed assembramenti nemici a sud di Bird El Carmusa sono stati attaccati...