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 […]
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 […]
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) Introduction: I started off this project in search of one pilot from II./JG 54, Hans Beisswenger. While taking notes from different days the information accumulated […]
