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Old 7th February 2023, 17:21
Adriano Baumgartner Adriano Baumgartner is offline
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Re: Bf 109 Jabo Units in the West (Combat Aircraft, 149)

I do take my hat to the artist Jim Laurier on that cover and other works he did for Osprey.
What made me comment about this cover is justly, this different angle (or approach) where he (artist) managed to show us the ship below, the markings of the Staffelkapitän's machine, the bomb, etc.; on a same frame or painting. I particularly appreciated his work and view...
Maybe it would be difficult to paint the machine on the sharp pull-out, just after releasing the bomb...so one or more second on the run, for our benefit (customers) can, maybe, be disconsidered here.
Since the full book has not appeared yet, I can not judge the inside contents, but the cover, on my humble opinion do capture the difficult tasks required by Higher Authorities and on the shoulders of those flyers...to hit (and run) moving and defended targets (ships), over water (or ports) without guided bombs or missiles.
I am unfamiliar, if the Luftwaffe later used the "skip-bombing" technique well used by some B-25 (and other twins) on the SWP Theater of Operations.
Maybe more tittles and beautiful covers keep appearing, both related to the LW, RAF and USAAC in WW2.
Semper Fi.
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