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Old 18th July 2024, 15:14
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Eagles of the Luftwaffe 3: DFS 230 Combat glider by Neil Page

https://www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/produ...-combat-glider

To be published on August 16, 2024:



"When it came to daring raids, Germany’s airborne troops had a secret weapon during the Second World War: the DFS 230 combat and assault glider. Successful German attacks at Eben Emael, Corinth, Crete and Gran Sasso are synonymous with the type – which could carry nine fully-equipped troops, dive towards its target at an angle of 80 degrees and land within 20m of it.
It was also frequently used for freight and could quietly deliver up to 1,200kg of cargo, even into areas considered too difficult and hazardous for successful supply drops by conventional means. For particularly difficult landing areas, it could optionally be fitted with up to three machine guns.
Designed during the mid-1930s, the DFS 230 entered service in 1939 and was operated throughout the war in every theatre where German forces were involved in the fighting. A DFS 230 was probably the last aircraft type to put down in the inferno of Hitler’s encircled capital city just days prior to the dictator’s suicide on April 30, 1945.
The type could be towed into the air by almost any powered combat aircraft – from an He 111 bomber to a Bf 109 fighter – dropping its wheeled landing gear on take-off and touching down on a skid.
More than 1,600 DFS 230s were built from 1939 to 1943 and up to a dozen are thought to survive today.
In Eagles of the Luftwaffe: DFS 230, Luftwaffe historian Neil Page, author of the two-part Luftwaffe Fighters series from Tempest Books, explores and explains both the type’s development and its service history"
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Re: Eagles of the Luftwaffe 3: DFS 230 Combat glider by Neil Page

Glad to see some coverage of less common types.
Given the author I will definitely be picking this up.
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Re: Eagles of the Luftwaffe 3: DFS 230 Combat glider by Neil Page

thanks for your kind comments. Apologies for the last sentence of the blurb...not mine...I'd describe myself as an 'enthusiast'. Got to the stage now though where I know who to ask for help!
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Got to the stage now though where I know who to ask for help!
With questions like, “just how far will that poor machine gunner be thrown when his glider hits the ground?”
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..strapped in I'm sure. And the large wing must have made for a particularly effective 'wing-in-ground' effect. Hence the brake chute and braking rockets. Actually one or two pics in the book show dead passengers strewn round about a particularly bad 'crash' landing...
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..put back to December. Plenty of 'new' images that arrived too late for August should now make it into publication..
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..put back to December. Plenty of 'new' images that arrived too late for August should now make it into publication..
Thanks for the update. Was worried it had been cancelled as a upcoming titles from Morton's have vanished from their website (Fulmar book, Book on Bomber Command gardening campaign).
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