SOURCES

The following sources are all available online. Several of them are links to Soviet aviation resources, as it is often necessary to verify Luftwaffe records by consulting VVS records. The same hold true of allied sources.

Snow Leopard Productions - Excellent resource for Soviet Aviation.
Achtung Wurger!
Unsere Luftwaffe (in German)
Twelve O' Clock High - Maintained by Ruy Horta
Aircraft of the World
Elevon - Excellent research source for aircraft.
FW190! (in Spanish, English mirror site)
Aeroweb Russian Aviation Resource
The Battle of Stalingrad
Red Star-Black Cross - Maintained by Christer Bergstrom
Polish Aviation History - Maintained by Robert Postowicz
Dr. Joel Hayward His resource on the Eastern Front. He's since relocated and I could not find him. Anyone with information, please mail me.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Don Caldwell - JG 26; Top Guns of the Luftwaffe - ISBN 0-517-57039-4. Orion Books

Don Caldwell - JG 26 War Diary Vol. 1 1939-1942 - ISBN 1-898697-52-3. Grub Street

Don Caldwell - JG 26 War Diary Vol. 2 1943-1945 - ISBN 1-898697-86-8. Grub

Martin Gilbert - The Second World War - ISBN 0-8050-1788-7 Owl Book. Published by Henry Holt and Company

While writing the articles, I consulted ALL of the above sources, to a greater or lesser degree. "The Mustang-Myth or Legend" relied heavily upon technical research I gleaned from Elevon. That research data appears toward the end of the article, dealing with the specifications of the P-51-D, K and H variants of the NA73x.
The article on Poland, yet to be posted, (pending permission) relied heavily on resource materiel from Robert Postowicz's site on Polish Aviation.
I consulted Martin Gilberts book "The Second World War" a number of times while writing the Battle of Britain article. Most frequently for a date, or for a specific event. For example, the excerpt within the article concerning the "treatment" of mentally ill Jewish children at Gorden in Berlin, was a word for word excerpt from the book.

It is neither the intent, nor the practice of this authour to plagiarize upon the creative and original works of others. 'Nuff said.

Air Superiority will archive articles that I have written pertaining to the Second World War. It is all original and a list of sources will be provided for information in the articles.
I have been writing the articles since the fall of 1997, when they caught the attention of Robert "-DK-" Wyatt, webmaster and large animal veterinarian for the Shillelagh squadron. He asked permission to post them to his web site, where I believe they remain to the present.
It opened the project to a broader audience and was noticed by Chris "Wlvrn" Vanderpoel, venerable operator of Wlvrn's AW Message Boards. We began a project together called Pride and Duty, a newsletter which addressed WWII, the Holocaust and air power. It lacked contributors and was postponed, but the articles we wrote together remain there.
I wrote a total of six articles in the twelve month history of Pride and Duty. The time required to research the articles simply took a backseat to real life.
We had 600 subscribers to the series in a period of three months, a winner IMHO. Who knows, perhaps time and temperance will lead me again to the pen, to redress the wrongs of a war gone by.
In the meantime, I have posted the articles I authoured here, for your reading pleasure.

-Air Superiority Archives-


"America's Shame-The First Thirty Days"

"The Day The Battleship Died-Pearl Harbour; A Retrospective"

"Air Armadas-The Battle of Britain"

"Stanislaw's Charge-The Battle for Poland"

"The Mustang-Myth or Legend"

"Nanking-The Eastern Holocaust"

Fair Skies.