Tag: Luftwaffe

Free Download Norway 1940: The Luftwaffe’s Scandinavian Blitzkrieg (Air Campaign) by James S. Corum, Graham Turner
English | July 27, 2021 | ISBN: 1472847458 | 96 pages | MOBI | 24 Mb
A history of the innovative German air campaign that ensured victory in the rapid conquest of Norway, and an analysis of its importance to World War II and the development of air power.

Free Download Tuskegee Airmen: Dogfighting with the Luftwaffe and Jim Crow by Samuel de Korte
English | April 14, 2024 | ISBN: 1399043811 | 200 pages | MOBI | 42 Mb
The history of 332nd Fighter Group, the only segregated Fighter Group that served in combat during the Second World War.

Free Download Luftwaffe Bomber to Nightfighter: Volume I -The Memoirs of a Knight’s Cross Pilot
by Arnold Doring, Thomas Baumert, James Holland
English | June 24, 2024 | ISBN: 1784388165 | 240 pages | EPUB | 11 Mb

Free Download Captain Eric Brown – Wings of the Luftwaffe
Airlife Publishing | 1993 | ISBN: 1853104132 | English | 180 pages | PDF | 166.56 MB
During the first chaotic months after the fall of the Third Reich, the RAE sent test pilots throughout the British Zone of Occupation to collect examples of the Luftwaffe’s standard aircraft and then ferry them to Farnborough. Captain Eric Brown was a pilot in this ferrying operation. Here Brown delivers a detailed assessment of the characteristics of these principal German aircraft: Fw200C; Heinkel He162; Junkers Ju87; Dornier Do217; Messerschmitt Me262, Bf109G, Bf110, Me163, and several others.

Free Download Philip Kaplan – The Battle of Britain: Luftwaffe Blitz. Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Images of War)
Pen & Sword | 2013 | ISBN: 178159368X | English | 147 pages | PDF | 125.37 MB
After its attack on Poland in 1939, Britain and France had declared war on Germany. The Germans were suddenly in a war they had risked and now had to fight, and they planned an invasion of Britain to destroy that enemy’s potential for making war. The plan, Operation Sea Lion, called for implementation by the autumn of 1940 and depended on German forces defeating and eliminating the Royal Air Force, clearing the English Channel of British mines, dominating the coastal zone between occupied France and England with heavy artillery, and eliminating the Royal Navy as a threat.

Free Download Hermann Buchner – Stormbird: One of the Luftwaffe’s Highest Scoring Me262 Aces
Crecy Publishing | 2008 | ISBN: 0859791394 | English | 296 pages | PDF | 143.62 MB
Bomber pilots who become fighter pilots are rare, Hermann Buchner was one. The author, a Luftwaffe NCO pilot and Knight’s Cross holder gives a riveting account of his training with the pre-war Austrian airforce, instructing with the Luftwaffe then the terrifying ground attack operations on the Eastern Front.

Free Download Bernd Barbas – Planes of the Luftwaffe Fighter Aces Vol.1
Kookaburra | 1985 | ISBN: 0858800489 | English | 177 pages | PDF | 52.68 MB
The first book in Kookaburra’s 2 Volume Set. This monumental work is the result of interviewing surviving German fighter pilots and ground crew over a long period, thus gaining access to many unpublished private photographic collections.

Free Download Bob Carruthers – Me.262 Stormbird Ascending (Luftwaffe in Combat 1939-45)
Pen & Sword | 2013 | ISBN: 1781581118 | English | 148 pages | PDF | 62.93 MB
This comprehensive overview of the Me.262 was compiled by Emmy Award winning historian Bob Carruthers. It draws heavily on post-war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the Me.262 at the tactical and operational level. Also featured are rare English translations of contemporary interviews concerning the 262 with Adolf Galland and Hermann Goering, along side the views of test pilot Hans Fey and Flug Kapitan Wendel who flew the aircraft in combat sorties. They provided an absorbing study, from a unique series of primary sources, of the world of the Me.262 and its pilots, and conveys to the modern reader a vivid sense of how they were viewed at the time. Also included is the complete pilot’s flying manual which affords a fascinating insight from the cockpit into the realities of piloting the world’s first operational jet fighter.

Free Download Christopher Staerck, Paul Sinnott – Luftwaffe: The Allied Intelligence Files
Brassey’s | 2002 | ISBN: 1574883879 | English | 240 pages | PDF | 143.44 MB
From the formerly secret files of the British Public Records Office.

Free Download Bruno Jaddatz – The Luftwaffe Guide Book to Basic Survival at Sea
Schiffer Publishing | 2002 | ISBN: 0764316192 | English | 60 pages | PDF | 27.62 MB
When first published during World War II, this basic survival at sea manual was presented to Luftwaffe airmen in verse which was heavily colloquial and illustrated by colorful cartoon images. The idea was that the novice flyer could memorize the couplets and recall the visual images in order to retain their valuable message. Students of military aviation history will find this information on survival at sea most valuable. In particular, the drawings, though stylized cartoons, provide extremely accurate renderings of specific items of survival equipment for reference purposes.