Spitfire vs BF109Blog | Spitfire vs BF109 - Part 4

August 28, 2013

Putting faces to names: 617 Squadron

Photographs of all 617 Squadron aircrew that flew the famous dams raid in ’43 appear on the BBC website. This is a tremendous feat of research to find photographs of them all, as there is simply no way of knowing the names of most airmen in wartime photographs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22544568

August 7, 2013

On You Tube: Bf 109G-2 take-off and accident in ’97

On You Tube: 1997 BBC news report from Duxford of the takeoff and landing accident to Bf 109G-2 “Black 6”; in THE DECISIVE DUEL discusses how even experienced pilots (e.g. Galland) were subject to accidents landing the 109.

July 26, 2013

Duxford 28 July 2013

Those in the UK — Sunday Duxford 28 July 2013 — this sounds great!
http://www.iwm.org.uk/events/iwm-duxford/spitfires-merlins-and-motors

July 22, 2013

Online dissertation on WW2 operations in the Med

https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10036/3477

title: The British Anti-Shipping Campaign in the Mediterranean 1940-1944: Comparing Methods of Attack
Author: Hammond, Richard James

July 16, 2013

Why Spitfires Still Matter

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2362453/Immortal-romance-plane-saved-Britain-A-gloriously-thrilling-emotional-flight-Spitfire.html

July 7, 2013

Americans Come out to see Palm Spring Spitfire XIV

Yes, Little Brown, Americans like Spitfires too (and were part of its story).
http://www.mydesert.com/article/20130706/NEWS01/307060038/Fans-Palm-Springs-check-out-Supermarine-Spitfire

June 27, 2013

The Buried Spitfires: THE MYANMAR TIMES summing up

The Myanmar Times of 25 June contains a well-reasoned summing up of the Burmese Buried Spitfire crusade:
http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/7198-spitfires.html

May 24, 2013

Article on F-15s in RSAF, KSA, RoK

My article (with my old buddy Lon Nordeen) on recent (and pending) exports of the F-15 Eagle is in the JUNE issue of AIR INTERNATIONAL, available for your holiday weekend airpower reading at your local newsagent (UK) or coming soon to the magazine rack at Barnes&Noble (US).
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?124397-AIR-International-June-issue-Biggest-ever-issue-ft-Rafale-Supplement!

May 23, 2013

Latest article on Special Operations Forces

My article “Worldwide Special Operations Forces: Evolving to Meet Emerging Threats” has appeared in THE YEAR IN SPECIAL OPERATIONS 2013-14, published by Faircount.
http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/the-year-in-special-operations-2013-2014/?fb_action_ids=10201273306585159&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210201273306585159%22%3A172133306283497%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210201273306585159%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D

April 21, 2013

Back to Burma: The Search for Soggy Spitfires, part deux

The hunt for buried Spitfires in Burma to resume!
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/spitfire-hunter-planning-dig-far-2977719