Luftwaffe Gallery # 6: LUCK, FATE and DESTINY

[Erik Mombeeck]

Dear friends, dear readers, dear followers,

It is with great pleasure that we announce the release, on 15 October, of the 10th publication in the Luftwaffe Gallery (LuGa) series which, as chance would have it, also corresponds with the 10th anniversary since its introduction. We took this opportunity to renew the layout of the series.

Once again, our aim is to offer you an informative reading experience: testimonials, analyses, photos and profiles that you will not have read or seen anywhere else. This issue has as its common thread "luck and misfortune": be it in the first victory or the first loss, or even the first air-sea rescue of enemy aircrew and also the part played by superstition. Records of victory and the Luftwaffe claims procedure is also examined and commented on by experienced pilots from JG 1, JG 2 and JG 26. One of them, Hans Berger, a former Staffelkapitän in JG 1, is a professional translator and has been translating the chronicles of JG 1, JG 2, JG 4 and JG 5 into German for about 30 years. It is thus he, at more than 95 years of age, who made possible the recent publication of volume 6 of JG 2 devoted to the terrible year 1944.



Samples of the new LuGa #6 are available on our website www.luftwaffe.be as well as on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/Luftwaffe.Gallery/



The 11th LuGa is already in preparation. It will be the "Special #5" dedicated to a very prestigious Jagdgeschwader. More details in a few months.

Good Reading

Erik and Maciej