Recent content by Andrew Arthy

Here is a link to my very old article about the Hs 129 in North Africa: The Henschel Hs 129 in Tunisia. And attached is the first page of a much more recent version. In summary, the Hs 129 Staffel sent to Libya was a complete failure, while the Hs 129 Staffel serving in Tunisia enjoyed limited...

Luftflotte 3 did undertake nightly operations over the invasion area, including bombing and mining, but it was pretty costly. See below: Night 6/7 June 1944 - 249 sorties, 11 losses Night 7/8 June 1944 - 295 sorties, 22 losses Night 8/9 June 1944 - 105 sorties, 4 losses Night 9/10 June 1944 -...

The Hs 123 was used on daylight ground-attack missions on the Eastern Front until January 1945 (after temporarily being taken from operations between May and September 1944 due to lack of aircraft/spare parts). It was never used at night. In the winter of 1944/1945 it was serving with the II...

To provide a bit of primary source evidence for the thread, below are the sortie figures for the 3rd Air Army on a couple of typical days in October 1944 over Courland in Latvia. The vast majority of Soviet fighter sorties in 1944/1945 were cover/patrol missions and escort missions. They almost...

Many of the 1:1000000 Luftwaffe maps are available here: Przeglądarka skorowidzów. The 1:500000 maps are also available on that site. Cheers, Andrew A.

The three primary authors are all Norwegian, so I'd reckon there is a very good chance they'll cover the Norwegian He 115s.

Hi Chris, Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any English-language sources on the Red Banner Fleet air operations in the Second World War. The Eastern Front air war has not received a great deal of attention from English-speaking aviation historians, and the Soviet side of the story even less than...

The raids were conducted by aircraft of the Baltic Fleet, including 9.ShAD, 8.MTAD, and 11.ShAD. Cheers, Andrew A.

I've just let Nick know about this thread. Cheers, Andrew A.

Here are some monthly figures for German aircraft losses to all causes in the Mediterranean theatre: January 1941: 40 February 1941: 47 March 1941: 28 April 1941: 77 May 1941: 290 June 1941: 49 July 1941: 23 September 1943: 449 October 1943: 256 November 1943: 218 December 1943: 131 July 1944...

Hi, Here you go: Cheers, Andrew A.

Hi, Here are all the 2nd TAF operations on that day. Cheers, Andrew A.

Hi, Below are a couple of pages from Italian air force records about their early efforts over the Channel in October-November 1940 (in Italian, but easy enough to work out what is going on). Cheers, Andrew A.

Hi, Happy to help. This information is from the war diaries of the relevant air armies, and was kindly provided to me by a Russian colleague. Cheers, Andrew A.

Hi, 16.VA had very few losses on 24 April 1945. 3.IAK lost one Yak-9 to fighters, bailing out in Soviet-held territory, and a Yak-3 pilot failed to return after being downed in combat. He returned to his unit three days later. 6.IAK lost a P-39 in a take-off accident on a non-combat flight...