http://www.ww2air.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:46:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There were from the beginning two defenders of the Reich, the JG2 and the JG26. Both units had been send to fight the incoming Soviets in January 1945. Some elements were also converting their Focke-Wulfs to He-162 jets. I. and III./JG11 were still flying the FWs for the defence of the ... http://www.ww2air.com/airfleet/luftwaffe/three-foes The Stabsschwarm of JG 301 was the only fortunate section of the entire Luftwaffe to receive this ultimate Focke Wulf, the Ta-152 and to use it in combat. They got their first Ta-152H-1s on 2 March 1945. The Stabsschwarm saw a little action with the Ta-152s but still ... http://www.ww2air.com/airfleet/luftwaffe/focke-wulf-ta-152-into-service-with-the-stabsschwarm-of-jg-301 29th of December 1944 was a black day for all the III/JG54. Besides hauptmann Robert Weiss losses were: 5 pilots from 8th squadron, 6 pilots from 9th squadron, 6 pilots, partially from Stab. squadron, partially from 11th and 12th squadrons. So how it happened.From the morning group had hard combat activity. 9th and 10th squadron ... http://www.ww2air.com/airfleet/luftwaffe/robert-weiss-iii-jg54-commander-death Walter Nowotny was a person to prove Me-262 is much better and usefull as a fighter not a bomber. He was commander of III/JG6 or "Kommando Nowotny". Flying Me-262 Nowotny claimed on 3 air victories, 2 of them on the 8th of November, when during the flight against bombers he crashed. ... http://www.ww2air.com/airfleet/luftwaffe/walter-nowotny-death 7th of October 1944 9/JG54 (commander Wilhelm Heilmann) and 12/JG54 (commander Hans Dortenmann) flying FW-190D-9 "Dora-9" were moved to Hesepe and Achmer airfields accordingly. They were covering Kommando Nowotny operations there. It was done beacuse of extreme Me-262 vulnerability during take-off and landing processes. On the 7th of October USAF's P-51s ... http://www.ww2air.com/airfleet/luftwaffe/fw-190d-9-to-protect-me-262 26th of Spetember 1944 was formed up III/JG6 with Me-262 on duty. It was combat unit using Me-262 as a fighter and to work up its combat usage and to prove Me-262 will be much usefull for the Luftwaffe as a fighter, not as a bomber. The unit was based ... http://www.ww2air.com/airfleet/luftwaffe/kommando-nowotny 19 of february USSTAF meteorology division has made good stable weather forecast for the long period and 20 of February general Spaatz gave an order of three words: "Let'em go!" It was the start of the "Big week" - USAF heavy bombing operation against German aviation industry. The main point - ... http://www.ww2air.com/airfleet/usaf/the-big-week The skies over Germany has cleared out on the 11th January 1944 and though brilliant weather conditions supposed to be not for a long, 8th Air Force has decided to strike. By the noon time about 663 bombers took off, formed up three groups and headed to the one target: fighters ... http://www.ww2air.com/airfleet/usaf/first-p-51-mustang-usage In spite of RAF pilots advices USAF decided to perform bomb strike on Schweinfurt ball bearing plant without fighters cover. Both RAF and Luftwaffe has studied this lesson during the beginning of war: bombers without fighters cover can reach targets behind the enemy lines only by the cost of great ... http://www.ww2air.com/airfleet/usaf/last-bomb-strike-without-fighters-cover Josef Kammhuber, XII air corps commander, the creator of night Reich air defence has made fatal mistake 24th of June 1943 - he said Hitler the truth. Due to Kammhuber's insistence by the summer 1943 his “Himmelbelt” zones were covering territory from the north of Jutland to the Mediterranean, he had ... http://www.ww2air.com/airfleet/luftwaffe/josef-kammhuber-retirement