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Articles

Overrun Arados (Aviation News Vol. 17, No. 10, 30 September–13 October 1988)

On an Evil Journey … (Aviation News Vol. 18, No. 12, 27 October– 9 November 1989)

Special Publication No. 3, Seen and Heard — Some Contemporary Descriptions of Luftwaffe Paint Schemes (Luftwaffe Circle, Auburn Al.,
1 March 1992)

Special Publication No. 7, The Mythical Unicorn: A Brief History of Sonderverband Einhorn (Luftwaffe Circle, Auburn Al., 1 November 1994)

Aufklärungsstaffel Kaatsch (Luftwaffe Verband Journal No. 35, Cary NC,
July 2003)

Le Stuka dans la Décharge (Aéro-Journal No. 32, Agen-Boé, France, August/September 2003) ISSN 0336-1055

Comment Saint-Ex a péri : entre mythes et réalités (Aérojournal No. 4, Marseille, France, June/July 2008) ISSN 1962-2430

NSG 9 — der Kampf bei Nacht (Flugzeug Classic, München, November 2010)

Books

Nick Beale, Ferdinando D’Amico and Gabriele Valentini: Air War Italy 1944–45, the Axis Air Forces from the Liberation of Rome to the Surrender (Airlife Publishing Ltd., Shrewsbury, May 1996) ISBN 1 85310 252 0

Nick Beale: Ghost Bombers, the Moonlight War of NSG 9: Luftwaffe Night Attack Operations from Anzio to the Alps (Classic Publications Ltd., Crowborough, November 2001) ISBN 1 903223 15 6

Nick Beale: Kampfflieger Volume Four, Bombers of the Luftwaffe, Summer 1943–May 1945 (Classic Publications, Hersham, July 2005) ISBN 1 903223 50 4

J. Richard Smith, Chris Goss, Martin Pegg, Andrew Arthy, Nick Beale and Robert Forsyth: Schlachtflieger: Luftwaffe Ground-Attack Units 1937–1945 (Midland Publishing, Hinckley, July 2007) ISBN-10: 1857802748 and ISBN-13: 978-1857802740

Robert Forsyth and Nick Beale: Combat Aircraft 134: Arado Ar 234 Bomber and Reconnaissance Units (Osprey, Oxford, September 2020) ISBN 978-1472844392

Nick Beale: Sonderstaffel Einhorn and III./KG 200: from Self-sacrifice to Surrender in the compendium Axis Wings Volume 1 (Chandos Publications, March 2024) ISBN 9781999316556

A note on the background to this 24,000-word (34-page) history, some new information and a full list of sources can be found here.

Nick Beale: Panthers Taking Pictures, Me 262 Reconnaissance Operations, 1944–45 and Sonderstaffel Einhorn and III./KG 200: from Self-sacrifice to Surrender – Addenda in Axis Wings Volume 2 (Chandos Publications, October 2024) ISBN 9781999316570

Nick Beale: Alfred Partzsch and 1./NSGr. 4 (Prussia and Pomerania, 1945) in Axis Wings Volume 3 (Chandos Publications, October 2025) ISBN tbc


Co-author (with Eddie J. Creek and J. Richard Smith) of an appendix The Camouflage and Markings of JV 44 in Robert Forsyth: JV 44–The Galland Circus (Classic Publications Ltd., Burgess Hill, 1996) ISBN 0 9526867 0 8

A pall of brown smoke was all that remained, chapter 18 of J. Richard Smith and Eddie J. Creek: Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Volume Two, 1943–1944 (Classic Publications, Hersham, 2012) ISBN 9781906537302

Catastrophic state of affairs, burning aircraft etc., chapter 25 of J. Richard Smith & Eddie J. Creek: Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Volume Three, 1944–1945 (Classic Publications, Hersham, 2013) ISBN 9781906537319

Preface to Lovro Persšen: Hunting Tito: A History of Nachtschlachtgruppe 7 in World War II (Schiffer, Atglen, 2014) ISBN 978-0-7643-4632-3

4./FAGr. 5, chapter 12 of Robert Forsyth: Shadow over the Atlantic (Osprey, Oxford, 2017) ISBN 978 1 4728 2045 7

Section on the CR.42 in Luftwaffe service (pages 113–114) in Luigino Caliaro: FIAT Aeritalia Fighters (Crécy, Manchester, 2024) ISBN 978-1-80035-312-1

Section on the RE.2002 in Luftwaffe service in Luigino Caliaro: Reggiane Fighters (Crécy, Manchester, 2025) ISBN 9781800353527

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