By Robert Jackson, Adam Tooby
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was once one of many actually world-class piston-engined warring parties of worldwide struggle II. This acceptance rests principally with the E-F versions, which bore the brunt of the Luftwaffe's most crucial operations in international struggle II and shot down tens of hundreds of thousands of Allied airplane within the conflict of england, the Blitzkriegs throughout Europe and at the japanese entrance. This quantity appears on the layout and improvement heritage of those ambitious warplanes, with a meticulous technical concentration and transparent, distinctive illustrations to bare why the categories have been so potent. It explores the lengthy means of tweaks to the E variation, and ideas to the various preliminary technical issues of the F, and the way this improvement helped Willy Messerschmitt's promising Bf 109 layout mature and fulfil its capability.
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The aircraft nearest the camera bears the double chevron of a Gruppenkommandeur, and carries many kill markings on its tail. (Jagd)/LG 2 at Saint-Inglevert, Pas-de-Calais, in the summer of 1940. (J)/ LG 2 became the new I Gruppe, JG 77. (Schlacht)/LG 2, was dedicated to ground attack. /JG 2 ‘Richthofen’ was disabled by RAF fighters during an attack on Shoreham airfield on 13 August 1940. Its pilot, Oberleutnant Paul Temme, made a successful belly landing and was taken prisoner. (Via Martin Goodman) edge at high altitude.
Twenty-three Hurricane and 25 Spitfire pilots were killed. It was a sure indication of the bitter fighting that was to come. The British Air Defence System Britain had one major advantage in that it had the benefit of the most advanced command-and-control system of air defence in the world. Dowding’s approach to air defence was essentially a scientific one; he believed that Britain’s air defences should have the benefit of the very latest technological developments. This was reflected in Fighter Command’s operations rooms, linked with one another by an elaborate system of telephone and teleprinter lines to provide an integrated system of control.
The open water is alive with pontoons, barges, boats and tiny craft, all stiff with flak. The Russians use every possible site for their AA guns. For instance, the mouth of Leningrad harbour is supposed to have been closed to our U-boats by means of huge steel nets suspended from a chain of concrete blocks floating on the surface of the water. Even from these blocks AA guns bark at us. The flak forced JG 54’s Messerschmitts to remain at high altitude, where they fought frequent battles with the fighters of the Baltic Fleet Air Force and the 7th Fighter Air Corps.