The Battle of
Berlin 1943-44
Publisher: Osprey
Author: Richard Worrall
ISBN: 9781472835222
Format: Softback
Price: £14.99T
hroughout late-1943 into
early-1944, an epic struggle
raged over the skies of
Germany between RAF Bomber
Command and the Luftwafe.
This campaign had been
undertaken by the Commander-
in-Chief Bomber Command, Air
Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris,
and was baptized ‘The Battle of
Berlin’. The Berlin campaign was
a hard, desperate slog. Struggling
against dreadful and bitter winter
weather, Bomber Command
‘went’ to Berlin a total of sixteen
times, sufering increasingly
severe losses throughout the
winter of 1943/44 in the face
of a revitalized German air-
defence. The campaign remains
controversial and the jury, even
today, is ultimately undecided as
to what it realistically achieved.
Illustrated throughout with
full-colour artwork depicting the
enormous scale of the campaign,
this is the story of the RAF’s much
debated attempt to win the war
through bombing alone.
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Tempest V vs Fw 190D-9
Publisher: Osprey
Author: Robert Forsyth
ISBN: 9781472829252
Format: Softback
Price: £13.99A
rguably two of the inest
piston-engined ighters
ever built, the Tempest
V and Fw 190D-9 raised the bar
in terms of aircraft design and
operational capability during
World War II. The long-nosed
‘Dora 9’, designed by Kurt Tank,
irst appeared in the skies over
the Western and Eastern Fronts
in the late summer of 1944. Fast,
and with an exceptional rate of
climb, it quickly bettered almost
every ighter that the RAF, USAAF
and Soviet Red Air Force could
ield. The Hawker Tempest V
entered service in early 1944,initially proving itself a stalwart
performer when it was deployed
to intercept V1 lying bombs
over southern England. From the
autumn of 1944, the Tempest V
also equipped squadrons of the
2nd Tactical Air Force, operating
in support of the Allied armies
advancing across north-west
Europe. It became a potent
ground-attack aircraft, armed
with underwing rockets, but also
a irst-class interceptor when
pitted against the Luftwafe’s
advanced Fw 190D-9 and
Me 262. Featuring full colour
artwork, this book describes
in fascinating detail combats
between the Tempest Vs of No
274 Squadron and the Fw 190D-
9s of I. and III./JG 26 between
February and April 1945.
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Paint Guide
Publisher: Ammo by Mig
Author: Various
ISBN: AMIG6502
Format: Softback
Price: €9.99H
ow to Paint Luftwafe Late
Fighters is an easy and
basic guide to help any
modeller achieve a inish they can
be proud of. Full of high-quality
images and step by step guide,
you can be sure that by following
the processes outlined you will be
able to paint and weather any late
Luftwafe Fighter. The book is a
simple and basic guide intended
to help any modeler to easily
achieve similar results to those
shown in every example. With
this guide, you can paint any late
war German ighter. Although
we have chosen a Fw 190 D-9 as
an example for this step-by-step
guide, the same processes can be
applied using exactly the same
sequence and methods to any
other Luftwafe ighter dated to
the end of the conlict. Simply
grab your favourite model and
start painting without further
delay!
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