Luftwaffe Gallery Vol.2

Author: Erik Mombeeck

This book has 56 pages and contains seven interesting articles:

1. Markings Gallery I: Red cowling bands
2. Markings Gallery II: Yellow cowlings on Bf 109 Fs
3. Markings Gallery III: White noses on Bf 110s
4. Colour Gallery: Jnukers Ju 88 special
5. Camouflage Gallery: Cross hatch paint schemes
6.  Equipment Gallery: Luftwaffe tunic lapel badges
7.  Emblem Gallery: The Bonzo cartoon dog character

These are lavishly illustrated with over 90 photos, including several in colour, and 30 colour profiles that had been created by Thierry Dekker.

Author: Erik Mombeeck

In the Luftwaffe Gallery series, this expanded special edition is devoted to JG 26, the famed ‘Abbeville Boys’ or ‘Abbeville Kids’ of RAF and USAAF legend. This superb new title provides an unparalleled view of air combat in the skies of Britain and France, from dog-fighting between Messerschmitts and Spitfires during the campaign in the West and the Battle of Britain, to fighter bomber missions over southern England, to the Allied invasion of Normandy and the desperate sorties flown by the unit’s Fw 190s against the huge USAAF bomber streams.

On 96 pages, you’ll find 28 superb colour profiles created by Thierry Dekker, over 240 photographs and newly translated personal accounts.

Authors: Erik Mombeeck, Maciej Góralczyk

This new volume is devoted to JG 5 ‘Fighters of the Midnight Sun’. Nothing predestined young German fighter pilots to fly and fight among the grandiose landscapes of Norway, Finland or Lapland with their hostile climates. Many of them would find their last resting places in the storm-tossed icy waters of the Arctic Sea or the snow-covered plains of the tundra. Who even now knows that the defeat of the Wehrmacht was precipitated by the failure to conquer Europe’s northern-most small territory?

This latest Luftwaffe Gallery ‘special issue’ tells the story of this fighter Geschwader and its numerous aces on 96 pages, filled with rare and newly translated first person accounts, over 240 photos (many previously unpublished) and 32 specially commissioned artworks that had been created by Janusz Światłoń.

Authors: Erik Mombeeck, Maciej Góralczyk

JG 54 was perhaps the most fascinating fighter Geschwader of the Luftwaffe, not least for modellers. This is in large measure due to the variety of non-standard colour schemes worn by the unit’s Bf 109 and Fw 190 fighters as well as the diversity of its emblems and insignia displayed both early and late in the war.

On 96 pages of this latest Luftwaffe Gallery ‘special issue’ we highlight the story of this fighter Geschwader through rare and newly translated first person accounts, 207 photos of which many are published for the first time, and 32 specially commissioned profiles that had been created by Thierry Dekker.

Author: Erik Mombeeck

This book has 56 pages and features six fascinating articles:

1. Emblem Gallery I: The Zylinder Hut/Top Hat emblem (with Many Souffan)
2. Camouflage Gallery: JG 54 snakeskin pattern paint schemes (with Maciej Góralczyk)
3. Colour Gallery: Luftwaffe liaison – Supporting operations in the desert
4. Emblem Gallery II: JG 53 Jabostaffel in Sicily
5. Equipment Gallery I: Seenot! Down in the drink (with Yves Empain)
6. Equipment Gallery II: Langnasen Dora 9 (with Kees Mol, James Crow, Maciej Góralczyk and Neil Page)

These are lavishly illustrated with more than 80 photos, including many in colour, and 33 colour profiles that had been created by Thierry Dekker.

Author: Erik Mombeeck

Several factors characterise the history of JG 77: the diversity of its origins, the fact that the Geschwader fought on all fronts, flying the Messerschmitt Bf 109 throughout (except for a very brief interlude on Macchi 205), the striking number and quality of its insignia and the fact that it had in its ranks a large number of the leading fighter aces.

Through newly translated personal accounts, over 230 photos and 31 colour profiles, we tell the story of this unit on 96 pages of this ‘special issue’ of Luftwaffe Gallery.

Author: Erik Mombeeck

Luftwaffe Gallery No.4 offers six interesting articles:

1. Emblem Gallery: Luftwaffe aircraft eagle emblems
2. Camouflage Gallery: Paint schemes of III./JG 3, spring 1942
3. Equipment Gallery I: Metal pennants
4. Colour Gallery: The Ju 87
5. Equipment Gallery II: Pilot victory sticks, part 2
6. Marking Gallery: The tail band colours of III./JG 6 (by Kees Mol)

All gathered on 56 pages, lavishly illustrated with 28 colour profiles and more than 100 photos, including many in colour!

Author: Erik Mombeeck

This book has 56 pages and features five fascinating articles:

1. Emblem Gallery: Raining cats and dogs
2. Camouflage Gallery: JG 2 mottle musings (with Neil Page)
3. Markings Gallery: All in a spin – Colourful spinners
4. Unit Gallery I: Six months with 2./JG 2, from eagle to owl.
5. Unit Gallery II: Wekusta 2 in all weathers, by Pierre Babin

Readers’ Corner

These are lavishly illustrated with 96 rare photos and 28 colour profiles that had been created by Thierry Dekker.