Re: Operations in Kurland
 

Amazon.de certainly does ship to the US, but their 3rd party sellers (the Amazon Marketplace) don't. Because the book is out-of-print, there is only one copy available on Amazon.de and it's from a Marketplace seller.

The good news is that the book isn't very difficult to find. There are currently two copies on eBay.de -- just do a search for "chronik 51". Also, if you consult the usual book search engines, you'll find over a dozen copies available from European booksellers.

Actually, yogybär was simply stating that the Aders/Held title doesn't come up to the standard of the detailed and comprehensive unit histories we've come to expect from the likes of Mombeek and Prien. While neither Mombeek nor Prien have done a JG 51-specific history, Prien's excellent Jagdfliegerverbände series does contain a great deal of information about JG 51 (as it does about all Jagdwaffe units.)

A few more titles about JG 51:

• "Kagero Air Miniatures #29: JG 51, part 1" by Murawski -- the first of a multi-part series on the unit, in Polish and English.
• "Osprey Aviation Elite Units #22: Jagdgeschwader 51 'Mölders'" by Weal (to be published in Oct 2006)
• "Kreuze im Himmel wie auf Erden: Fronterleben im Jagdgeschwader Mölders" by Günther Rübell -- Rübell was a RKT with 48 victories who served in JG 51 from late 1940 to mid 1944. His autobiography contains some details about the unit as well.

Leon Venter

Re: Operations in Kurland
 

Go to addall.com, and search on Aders as the author, and Geschwader as the title. You will find a number of copies at different prices and stores. Many of them will ship to the US; use air mail if you can afford it, otherwise it will take 6-8 weeks to arrive.

Frank.

Re: Operations in Kurland
 

Thanks, leonventer and Frank. :) I'll check those sites and titles out.

Re: Operations in Kurland
 

Another question, more related to my original post: on Holm's site: 10.(Pz)/ SG 3 is listed as flying from an airfield called Walmar. Try as I might, I've not been able to locate this on any map. Does anyone know where this is?

Re: Operations in Kurland
 

Could be Wolmar (Valmiera). North East of Riga. Valmiera Disctrict borders Estonia.

Just a guess though...

Re: Operations in Kurland
 

Hi,

Wolmar is indeed Valmiera, located 110 km north-east of Riga. 10.(Pz.)/S.G. 3 was not the only unit to be based there. It was also home to elements of S.G. 4.

Cheers,
Andrew A.

Re: Operations in Kurland
 

Thanks again! It's really nice to have such knowledgeable folks around here that know that type of stuff. :)

Re: Operations in Kurland
 

During the crisis in July 1944, this AF was even used to fly in infantry (!). Parts of SG2 incl. Rudel were also there, but only short as the had to rush back to Romania when desaster struck the HG Südukraine in shape of the soviet Yassy-Kishinev-operation.

In this context I remember that in late summer 44, a Me323 was shot down by 3 Yaks over Kurland...