Talk:Jagdgeschwader 26/Archive 1

JG26 'Abbeville Boys'
Just read an excellent book by one 'Gunther Bloemertz' (Guenther Bloemertz? in German Aces listing?) Title: 'Heaven Next Stop' Subtitle ' A Luftwaffe pilot at war' ISBN 0-7509-1328-2 first Published 1953 by William Kimber & Co Ltd. This Edition Sutton Publishing Ltd Pheonix Mill, Thrupp, Stroud, Glocestershire GL5 2BU

A very graphic German perspective, quite harrowing. Some photos of book characters.

BobMuk 21:10, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Blomertz' book is indeed one of the better of its types; he served in JG 26 attaining 10 victories, until being shot down and severely wounded, then returned to service later in a ground duty role. Note that the events in his book are taken out of chronological context, but this does not lessen the vivid accounts in the narrative. Check out Heinz Knocke's 'I flew for the Fuhrer' too- an excellent read harryurz —Preceding unsigned comment added by Harryurz (talk • contribs) 22:21, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 22:43, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

The birth of the unit
First of all my english isn´t so good, so I hope you understand.On 01.11.1937 JG 234 was formed in Düsseldorf, it was under command of JG 134 Horst Wessel. I./JG 234 was formed on 03.15.1937 in Köln from parts of III./JG 134. II./JG 234 was formed on 03.03.37 in Werl and Düsseldorf from parts of II./JG 134. On 11.01.1938 the JG get independent, was under command of Oberstleutnat Ritter von Schleich and get the new name JG 132. On 12.11.1938 Adolf Hitler gave an order to rename JG 132 to JG 132 Schlageter. Hitler was inspire by Gauleiter Friedrich-Karl Florian of Düsseldorf to do so. On 05.01.1939 all JG chance their number so the JG 132 Schlageter becames JG 26 Schlageter and was still under command of Ritter von Schleich now Oberst. Hope I could help a little bit. My References is Geschichte eines Jagdgeschaders from Josef Priller, Heidelber 1956, Kurt Vowinckel Verlag. --84.175.126.145 (talk) 18:22, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Yellow identification markings
JG 26 was not the only unit to have yellow cowlings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.69.35.205 (talk) 05:56, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

CE
Did a cheeky little, lock down, drive-by ce of the BoB section as the paragraphs were a bit big, added lang de templates to German terms. Auto edded, cite scanned, dupe wl checked, rm unused sources to further reading, hyphenated a few isbns and alphasorted. All suggestive, rv as desired. Keith-264 (talk) 16:24, 10 June 2020 (UTC)