Arctic Eagle

摘要

In this dramatic extract from his war memoir Luftwaffe Eagle, former Eastern Front Messerschmitt Bf 109G pilot WALTER SCHUCK describes the day in 1944 when he scored 12 victories against the Soviets over the Arctic tundra.rnJune 17, 1944, was destined to become one of the most thrilling days of my entire operational career. During the previous night a Russian reconnaissance aircraft had discovered one of our coastal convoys skirting the Varanger Peninsula bound for Kirkenes. The Russians alerted every available unit for a major effort against the convoy.