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RAF
SECOND WORLD WAR
FIGHTERS IN
AIRCRAFT DESIGNS
PROFILE
MORE THAN 280 HIGHLY DETAILED FULL COLOUR
RAF
SECOND WORLD WAR
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FIGHTERS IN PROFILE
MORE THAN 280 HIGHLY DETAILED FULL COLOUR AIRCRAFT DESIGNS
CHRIS SANDHAM-BAILEY
RAF Second World War
Fighters in Profile features
more than 280 highly
detailed profiles of 15
different aircraft types
flown by the Royal Air Force
between 1939 and 1945.
Full specifications and
histories are included for
British and Commonwealth
fighters operated on all
fronts during the conflict,
from the iconic Supermarine
Spitfire to US lend-lease
types such as the Bell P-39
Airacobra and Curtiss P-40
Warhawk, and everything in
between.
Written and illustrated throughout by
renowned aviation artist Chris Sandham-
Bailey, this book offers exquisitely drawn
profile views and scale plans of aircraft such
as Hawker’s Hurricane, Typhoon and Tempest,
plus the Westland Whirlwind, Boulton Paul
Defiant and more. Covering all of the RAF’s
high-performance wartime machines, this is
indispensable reading for enthusiasts and
modellers alike.
Author:
Chris Sandham-Bailey
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Introduction
viation enthusiasts have
always been interested in
the Luftwaffe, in particular in the
Messerschmitt Bf 109 and in the
fighter aces that flew it. e focus
always tends to be on the careers
of the leading fighter pilots, the
Jagdflieger Asse or Experten.
e Experten amassed incredible
individual tallies of aerial victories.
Some 90 Experten achieved more
than 100 kills – the top 100 fighter
aces in the history of aviation are
all German.
Unfortunately, much of what is
still being published is often not
far away from wartime or even
Cold War propaganda, with its
emphasis on the leading aces and
their ‘score’. However, some have
started to see beyond the idealising
approach of those writers who did
so much to ‘popularise’ the exploits
of the German fighter aces.
From a distance of 80 years, the
number of claims filed should no
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longer be sufficient reason to focus
on this small group of pilots; it seems
more appropriate to acknowledge
the fact that all pilots, the old
‘hares’ like the young ‘newcomers’
(‘Nachwuchs’), had but one life
to lose and that the unnamed or
little-known Luftwaffe pilots who
perished in the war – more often
than not in futile combat against
the huge Allied bomber formations
– deserve the same space in the
history of the German fighter arm
as do the so-called aces.
While some Luftwaffe aces may
have had tremendous individual
successes – their achievements
against weak and largely ill-
prepared opponents trumpeted
during the early years of victory –
the Luftwaffe as a whole proved
largely unable to fulfil its role as
either a tactical or a strategic force
for the greater part of the war.
Contrary to the myth, the
Luftwaffe was not a ‘mighty
force’ created from scratch
virtually overnight. For the most
part German fighter pilots were
hopelessly outnumbered. Indeed
the Jagdwaffe – the fighter arm –
never numbered more than 1500
serviceable single seat fighters. By
mid-1944 its major opponents
could easily field five times that
number. As with much of the
German war effort, the surprising
thing is not that the Luftwaffe
fighter arm failed but that it
performed as well as it did for as
long as it did.
is publication thus takes a
slightly different angle on the
Luftwaffe ‘ace’ pilots and their
aircraft. Including many newly
translated personal accounts, it
details the individual experiences
of some less well known
Luftwaffe pilots, Gruppen and
Geschwader.
Neil Page
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Contents
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Introduction
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‘Acemaker’ – The Messerschmitt Bf 109
•
Birth of the Luftwaffe’s fighter arm
•
Pilot Profile: Alexander von Winterfeldt
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II./JG 77 over Norway April-October 1940
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Helmut Biederbick with JG 54
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Unit History: Jagdgeschwader 51
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I./JG 77 over Malta, June-October 1942
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The last flight of Leutnant Paul Kaschuba
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Pilot Profile: Karl-Heinz Böttner – III./JG 77
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10./JG 4 Staffelkapitän Leutnant Rolf Schlegel
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Courland evacuation – May 1945
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Glossary
Author:
Neil Page
Publisher:
Steve O’Hara
Published by:
Tempest Books, Media
Centre, Morton Way, Horncastle,
Lincolnshire LN9 6JR. Tel. 01507 529529
Typeset by:
Burda Druck India Pvt. Ltd.
Printed by:
William Gibbons and Sons,
Wolverhampton
ISBN:
978-1-911639-71-8
© 2021 Mortons Media Group Ltd.
All
rights reserved. No part of this publication
may be reproduced or transmitted in
any form or by any means, electronic or
mechanical, including photocopying,
recording, or any information storage
retrieval system without prior permission
in writing from the publisher.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ank you to the following gentlemen
for their invaluable help in compiling
and illustrating this publication: Jean-
Louis Roba, Erik Mombeeck, Jean-Yves
Lorant, Dr Jochen Prien, David E Brown,
Philippe Saintes, Paul Stipdonk, Dr Hans
Krensler and Kurt Braatz at 296 Verlag.
To the veterans; Ernst Schröder, Hans
Weik, Karl-Heinz von den Steinen,
Günther Ehrlich, Friedrich-Wilhelm
‘Timo’ Schenk, Jules Meimberg and Willi
Unger. ank you. All personal accounts
translated by Neil Page.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Neil Page has lived and worked in
Germany and has a BA (Hons) degree in
modern languages. An aviation enthusiast,
he spent eight years at London Gatwick
airport in flight dispatch with a major
European airline. In addition to authoring
the two volume Day Fighter Aces of the
Luftwaffe set, published by Casemate in
2020, he is a prolific blogger and aircraft
modeller. His website, FalkeEins – the
Luftwaffe Blog, has garnered close to five
million page views over the past ten years.
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