Here is a Luftwaffe Bordfunker Badge that I bought from Bill Shea and then donated to the Luftwaffe Night Fighter Pilots Association, actually the...
Here is the Luftwaffe Short-Range Day Fighter Clasp in Gold for 60 sorties. This is the one that I have on the Bretschneider tunic. It is an...
Short-range night fighters were the FW-190s and I believe the Me-110s might have qualified. I know the Ju-88s and Do-17s were considered...
Here is a Luftwaffe Short-Range Nighter Fighter Clasp in Bronze for 20 night sorties. [img] [img]
Here is some more uses for bomb shelters... this is one in Hamburg (Hamburg Heiligen Geistfeldflak): [img] [img] Turned into apartments for...
I remember many years ago at a Virginia Bader Symposium meeting several RAF fighter aces: Don Kingaby, Peter Townsend and Hugh Dundas. I also met...
I think the reason that the Luftwaffe Nighter Fighter Pilots Association is no longer holding reunions is the fact that these gentlemen are...
Nice photo of Peter... that is probably an 'Afterburner' he is drinking... a double shot of pepper schnapps! He must still be in pilot training in...
James Detheridge in Wyoming just had an autographed photo of Branse on his site last week... same photograph as a matter of fact. I was interested...
Thank you Kai. I also have the Luftwaffe Officer Service Cap. It didn't belong to Bretschneider but is another nice early piece which matches well...
Based on the 28 July 1943 entry about the bombing of Hamburg... Erich said, "and the birth of Wilde Sau comes out of this mess..." It was ironic...
Fury, You are correct. Good memory!
I sold A TEST OF COURAGE, the last print pictured. I never had the first one, but do have the second... at least it's still on my inventory list...
Well here's another veteran who wouldn't sign much: Husemann (center), Luftwaffe night fighter ace with his crew and standing to his left is...
Additionally, I believe the altitude of 500 feet was wrong too. LeMay brought the B-29s down from their lofty 30,000 feet to 8,000 feet for...
Not bad Martin. I've met Galland several times. My friend and I have been hoping to meet Rudorffer before it's too late. There are very few Swords...
Looking through my Luftwaffe Volume II, which has bombers, Stukas, Fallschirmjager, Flak, Transport, etc. in it, I found a couple more wartime...
Kelly is very involved with the annual AFAA reunion. Are you a Friend of the Aces? Attend their reunions? This year it's in San Antonio, Texas....
Kelly Gross just came out with his book if I'm not mistaken. Bud Anderson (357th) and Hewitt (78th) will be at the WWII Weekend in Reading, PA...
From your 9 March entry, "The human carnage was so great that the blood-red mists and stench of burning flesh that wafted up sickened the bomber...
