Recent content by Nick Beale

Have you looked at the diaries of Comando Supremo which are online? DIARIO STORICO DEL COMANDO SUPREMO by rivista.militare1 Stack - Issuu

There was a reconnaissance version of the Me 262, it entered service in late 1944 and its radius of action (as quoted by the Chef der Technischen Luftrüstung in April 1945) was 150 km. If the Germans wanted an extended range reconnaissance jet why go to all that trouble when they already had the...

The He 111 H-22 seems to be something of a myth in that I've never actually found one in loss reports from V-1 launch operations. It may have been a standard drawn up by Heinkel had there been new-built launch aircraft but in practice KG 3 and KG 53 seem to have used converted H-16 and H-20...

If you scroll down the page in the following link you can find the LUMA map reference converter which will turn Luftwaffe fighter grid references into latitude and longitude: Reporting grids

The most accurate source the Ta 152 in action is almost certainly the one published in 2019 in Luftwaffe im Focus Edition No. 29 (for those who don't know it, it's a bilingual German/English publication). The author, Axel Urbanke, takes great care to resolve the contradictions and discrepnancies...

Being picky, Lotfe is an abbreviation for Lotfernrohr (= sighting scope, or something like that) so a generic term, not the specific model installed, if that’s what you’re after. The Lotfe 7c seems to have been the most common one though.

There's a whole book devoted to this: The Cuxhaven Raid by R.D. Layman (Conway Maritime Press, 1985) ISBN 10: 0851773273 / ISBN 13: 9780851773278 Secondhand copies can still be found online and not at silly prices, e.g. 0851773273 - Cuxhaven Raid by Layman, R D - AbeBooks