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The role of the Luftwaffe’s night-fighter force was one of the most difficult and dangerous jobs of them all. During their long, defensive campaign they became highly feared by...
14 January 1945 was a big day for the 357th Fighter Group. It was also going to be a memorable day for two 357th pilots in particular - Bud Anderson and Chuck Yeager. It was their last mission, having reached the end of their second tour of duty. Anderson was the Squadron Operations Officer, so he scheduled himself and Yeager as spares that day.
There was little chance of contact...
On 18 August 1944, Eighth Air Force Command planned a bombing mission against the German Aerodrome at Nancy/Essey, France. There were about 70 aircraft on this airfield, mostly He-111s and Ju-88s, as well as a small number of fighters. Early in the afternoon a moderately sized formation of B-24 Liberators attacked the field with good results on many hangars and buildings, although a large...
''If you had the height, you controlled the battle. If you came out of the sun, the enemy could not see you. If you held your fire until you were very close, you seldom missed’'
These three basic rules contributed to the prowess in aerial combat of some of the most successful fighter pilots in history and seldom were they more valuable than...
Werner Mölders leads a mixed group of Bf-109Es on a mission across the English Channel toward England in mid-August 1940 during the Battle of Britain. At the time, Mölders was commandant of II./JG2 based in Pihen-lcs-Guines, France. He was a rising star in the Luftwaffe, but his life would be cut short when he died in a transport plane crash in 1941.
This memorable...
On 21 November 1944, Lt Col John C. Meyer of the 352nd Fighter Group led eleven P-51 Mustangs on a fighter cover mission for B-17 bombers. Spotting about forty Fw-190s trying to intercept the bomber stream near Leipzig, Germany, Meyer maneuvered his “Blue Nosers” into an attack position behind the Luftwaffe fighters.
Achieving surprise, Meyer claimed three victories on...
The Memphis Belle might have been one of the hundreds of B-17 Flying Fortresses flown by the US 8th Air Force in the daylight bombing of Hitler’s military and industrial heartland, but she became something very special: the most famous B-17 of them all, because her skipper Colonel Bob Morgan and his crew were the first crew to complete a full tour intact. Twenty-five times they flew...
On 5 March 1944 the B-24 bombers of the 448th Bomb Group took off from England, their mission - to destroy the Luftwaffe facilities at Limoges aerodrome in western France. But waiting for them were the Bf-109s of JG2, ready to rip into the attacking force at the first opportunity. Luckily for the bomber crews they had one of the finest fighter escorts...
On Thursday, August 24th, 1944 a 22-year old Oberleutnant Erich Hatmann powered his Me109G fighter in a spectacular low pass over his squadron's airstrip in north-eastern Romania, wagging his wings to the cheering Luftwaffe personnel on the ground below. The young flaxen-haired pilot had just become the first fighter Ace in history to bring down 300 enemy aircraft in combat.
In...
On July 20th it was the turn of the 91st Bomb Group to attack an airfield near Leipzig, suspected of harboring the new menace - the Luftwaffe's revolutionary Messerschmitt Me262 jet. As the formation spread out for the bomb run, the 401st squadron took the low position - the most vulnerable to fighter attack.
Just as the crew of The Peacemaker steadied the ship to...
