JG 54: The Fighting Over the Soviet Leningrad and Volkhov Fronts 6 January – 6 July 1942 JG 54 versus the Soviet Aviation units By Michael Barrentine (01 August 2020) Introduction: I wrote this brief history of this forgotten Soviet Offensive with the point of interest being on the German Bf 109 units of JG […]
Air Combat Diary Above the sector Rzhev – Zubtsov: 1st Soviet Rzhev – Sychevka Offensive 30 July – 30 September 1942 By Kirill Chekmarev and Michael Barrentine (8 July 2019) Revised (30 June 2020) Introduction: I started off this project in search of one pilot from II./JG 54, Hans Beisswenger. While taking notes from different […]
The Planes of Fame Museum located in Chino, CA held its monthly Living History Flying Day on the first weekend of February 2020 and focused on the F4U Corsair. Major John Tashjian, USMC (Ret.) F4U fighter pilot and author Michele Spry attended this event. Major John Tashjian flew Planes of Fame Air Museum’s own Vought […]
The Planes of Fame Museum located in Chino, CA held its monthly Living History Flying Day on the first weekend of 2020 and focused on the Fw 190. In the 1990’s a German company produced 21 airframes that could be assembled into operational Focke-Wulfe 190’s. The airframes were built to factory specifications from Kurt Tank’s […]
Solving the Mystery of a Crashed Messerschmitt Bf 109: The Story of two Opposing Pilots By Sergey Katkov and Sergey Sadovnikov (Original published in Journal “Military Archeology” # 2 (23) 2013: What is revealed by the Werk-Number of a Messerschmitt-109) (copyright by Sergey Katkov) Translated by Michael Barrentine PROLOGUE: For many years we […]
1 January 1942: The Air Battle above the “Ice Road” of Lake Ladoga By Michael Barrentine Introduction This account of 1 January 1942 was written for the JG 54 website and focuses on the operations of JG 54 contesting Lake Ladoga. The claims of the German victories cannot always be 100% matched with […]
