Luftwaffe Colours, 1935-1945

Author: Michael Ullmann
Publisher: Hikoki Publications
ISBN: 9781902109077
Category : Airplanes, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Much has been written about the Luftwaffe, but no aspect has been more controversial than the question of camouflage and markings of the aircraft. Here, author Michael Ullmann follows the development and use of many colors and establishes the links betwen the then-standard RAL colors and those adopted by the German Air Ministry. He reveals how and why these finishes were developed and applied to both military and Lufthansa aircraft. Supplemented by more than 300 photographs, drawings, detailed color aircraft profiles, and a highly accurate chart of real paint chips, Luftwaffe Colours 1935-1945 presents a remarkable insight into the art of World War II German camouflage markings.

Luftwaffe Ground Attack Units 1937-1945 Schlachtflieger

Author: John Richard Smith
Publisher: Midland Publishing
ISBN: 9781857802740
Category : Airplanes, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Examines the development of ground-attack tactics and aircraft from the years prior to World War II to the final defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945.

Kampfflieger - Bombers of the Luftwaffe

Author: Alfred Price
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903223499
Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This third volume covers the Luftwaffe's bomber squadrons during the critical time from January 1942 through the summer of 1943 in all of the theatres in which they were active.

German Aircraft of World War 2 in Colour

Author: Kenneth Munson
Publisher: Blandford
ISBN: 9780713708608
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
This book contains illustrations of more than 100 principal types of aircraft used by the Luftwaffe during the war period (more than 60 of them in color), as well as concise text giving the background of their development and operational use.

Hitler's Luftwaffe

Author: Tony Wood
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
ISBN: 9780517187715
Category : Airplanes, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Pounding the enemy from the skies, the German Luftwaffe was the symbol of Hitler's power. With its decline came the fall of the Third Reich in 1945. This history includes a glossary of terms and abbreviations and an appendix detailing the Luftwaffe chain of command. More than 250 authentic color photos and over 130 full-color illustrations.

Nachtjager, Volume One

Author: David P. Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903223536
Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
To be produced in the same style as the 'Jagdwaffe' series (which concentrated on German day fighters), this is the first of a two-part history of the German Nachtjager - the nightfighter force - in World War 2. The Luftwaffe used many aircraft in the nightfighter role, primarily to combat RAF Bomber Command's nocturnal heavy bombing raids against German targets from 1940/1 onwards and a 'cat and mouse' development of aircraft enhancement, weapons, guidance systems and radar took place. The book contains a wide variety of aircraft. This volume, for example, concentrates on the single-seat Me109 fighter adapted as a nightfighter, early versions of the Me110 and the Ju88. The text will be accompanied by a wide range of photographs - many being published for the first time - together with the usual colour profiles, biographies of top nightfighter aces such as Falck, Schnaufer, Lent, Jabs and others. Furthermore, there will be pilot accounts and text boxes offering details of the Schrage Musik upward-firing, FuG202 Lichtenstein and SN-2 radar sets, etc.With the great importance attached by the Royal Air Force to its nocturnal bombing raids, the importance to the defence of Germany of the nightfighter squadrons cannot be overstated. This volume and its companion will provide the modeller and historian with a detailed examination of the Nachtjager forces deployed by the Luftwaffe during the war and will be required reading for all interested in the subject of the nightly battles over the skies of the Reich during World War 2.

Jagdwaffe Section 2

Author: Christer Bergstrom
Publisher: Atlasbooks Distribution
ISBN: 9781903223468
Category : Fighter pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
9 x 12, 200+ b/w photos, maps & tables, 27 color profiles

Warplanes of the Luftwaffe

Author: David Donald
Publisher: Aerospace Pub Limited
ISBN: 9781880588109
Category : Airplanes, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
Book illustrated with photos and cutaways of all types of German aircraft form the Second World War.

Germany at War

Author: George Forty
Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781844429349
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Germany at War is a unique collection of color photographs of the German experience of the Second World War. It covers the course of the war, from Hitler's assumption of power in the 1930s to the destruction of Berlin and Munich and the defeat of Nazism by the Allies, with many rare or unseen images, specially researched in German archives, covering: the rise of Nazism; rearmament and the war machine; the persecution of the Jews and other minorities; early success then the defeat on the Eastern front; campaigns in Europe and North Africa; everyday life in occupied territories; propaganda and the suppression of opposition; life on the home front during wartime; the final days of the war and the aftermath." --

Luftwaffe in Africa, 1941–1943

Author: Jean-Louis Roba
Publisher: Casemate
ISBN: 1612007465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
This WWII history examines Nazi air force operations in Egypt and Libya with more than 100 rare wartime photographs. When Mussolini’s army was defeated on the Libyan-Egyptian border at the beginning of 1941, Adolph Hitler had no choice but to send reinforcements to help his ally. The Luftwaffe deployed an air detachment, first to Sicily, then to North Africa. This volume examines the small expeditionary force, solely devoted to protecting Italian possessions in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theater. When General Erwin Rommel launched his Afrika Korps to the east, the Luftwaffe had to go on the offensive to cover the advance. As British air forces were strengthened, German High Command was obliged to send more aerial units into what it had initially considered a peripheral arena of the war. Losses in bombers and fighters were high on both sides. By the time the Allies landed in Morocco and Algeria at the end of 1942, the Wehrmacht’s fate was sealed. The last German units capitulated in Tunisia in May 1943.