Description

This book is a day-by-day account of a German fighter squadron , one of only two Luftwaffe units to spend the entire war on the Western front. It covers the Battle of France , the Battle of Britain , the Dieppe raid , and more. JG 26 was known as " The Abbeville Boys " and were seen by the Allies as an elite squadron Unit who flew Messerschmitt Bf 109's and Focke-Wulf Fw 190's... They were also known as the " Abbeville Kids ", Jagdgeschwader 26 (JG 26) were considered one of the best German fighter wings of World War II , spending the entire war battling the British , the Canadians , and the Americans in the West. In the spring of 1940 , it formed a critical component of the blitzkrieg that overtook France and , later that year , cemented its reputation as a fearsome unit during the Battle of Britain. Over the following two years , JG 26 , with no more than 124 fighters , completely dominated the airspace above northern France and Western Belgium...This is Volume 1 and Volume 2 as a signed set by Donald Caldwell printed by Grub Street in 1998...We at Legends Aviation Gallery with our book partners Tony Cannon of ' The Book Stall ' have managed to obtain a very limited number of signed bookplates signed by two highly decorated Luftwaffe Aces of JG 26 , Heinz Lange and Hugo Dahmer both holders of the Knights Cross...Heinz Lange has signed Vol 1 and Hugo Dahmer Vol 2...Volume one tells of its rise and fall and mirrors the history of the German Air Force. This book gives a chronology of the unit's activities , using documentary sources , JG 26 archives and veteran's own stories. Volume one covers the period from 1939 to 1942 and contains interviews with the veterans of the JG 26 unit...Volume two takes the JG 26 from the beginning of 1943 , when the American 8th Air Force first began to make its presence felt over occupied Europe , until the end of the war. During this period the Luftwaffe , with its JG 26 , began an inexorable decline , though the men of the JG 26 unit continued to score successes over Normandy , Arnhem and the Ardennes. This book contains interviews with these men and provides a daily account of the wing's activities , using Allied records , radio intelligence , and post-war research , as only two of the 30 volumes of the unit's official diary survived the war. The book is based largely on primary documentation obtained from the unit's veterans and on material from the national archives of Germany and the UK and USAF Historical Research Agency. The volume provides information such as JG 26 casualties , Allied victories , JG 26 aerial victories and Allied victims...Both Books , Volume one and Volume two are priced @ �£59.95 each... We are offering both Volumes for the discounted price of �£100.00 for the pair...Originally Limited to only Ten copies , now vey few left.