LUGASP004 Luftwaffe Gallery Special No.04 – JG 5 Eismeer
Luftwaffe Gallery Special Album No.04: JG 5 Eismeer – 1940 to 1945
by Erik Mombeek
Sized A4 landscape, softcover, 96 pages, English text and captions, over 240 rare b/w images - published for the first time, 32 colour profiles
Fighters of the Midnight Sun
Nothing predestined these young men to one day encounter the grandiose landscapes of Norway or Lapland, as well as their hostile climates. Who would have predicted that so many of them would find their last resting places in the storm-tossed icy waters of the Arctic Sea or the snow-covered plains of the tundra? Who even now knows that the defeat of the Wehrmacht was precipitated by the failure to conquer Europe’s northern-most small territory?