Luftwaffe gallery Special Album No 4: JG 5 '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?

96 Pages 

240 photos (many of them published for the first time)

32 coulour artwork

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