Gunther Bloemertz was one of the legendary "Abbeville Boys" of Jagdgeschwader 26, flying Focke-Wulf FW 190 fighters from northern France, and later. After the D-Day invasion, in the increasingly desperate final air battles against massed Allied bombers over Germany. 15 b&w photos.
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Heaven Next Stop is the vivid personal story of a German Luftwaffe fighter pilot in the World War II. Gunther Bloemertz flew Focke-Wulf FW190 day fighters from a base in northern France against intruding RAF fighters and USAAF bombers. Bloemertz describes life and death on the squadron, his fellow pilots and their almost daily duels with RAF Spitfires and USAAF Flying Fortresses, fought at both ground level and in the stratosphere over the Pas de Calais. Following the D-Day landings his unit was eventually forced to retreat in August 1944 into Germany, from where they fought an increasingly desperate battle against the Allied massed bomber streams. Blomertz concludes his story by relating the part he played as a fighter pilot defending the crumbling Third Reich in its final death throes, when he and fellow pilot Werner were all that remained of his original Luftwaffe unit. Near the close of the war both Bloemertz and Werner were shot down in dogfights with Allied fighters. Werner was killed and Bloemertz baled out of his aircraft, his face and body horrifically burned. Heaven Next Stop provides a fascinating insight into the lives of the Luftwaffe's fighter pilots. Heaven Next Stop is "must" reading for all World War II buffs and an invaluable contribution to military aviation history. -- Midwest Book Review
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Original Language: German --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
The weakest book ever written by a Luftwaffe WW2 pilot,
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This review is from: Heaven Next Stop: A Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot at War (Paperback)
Mr. Bloemertz writes in a boring style, adds almost nothing to the loyal reader of fighter-aviation books, and adds much less about his personal drama, because the characters are "empty"... (when they have at least a name, which is very seldom!)About tactics and technical details, forget about it. They simply don't exist in this book.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good and funny, but lacks actual facts!,
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This review is from: Heaven Next Stop: A Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot at War (Paperback)
This book by Mr. Bloemertz has one characteristic the books about WW II written soon after the war generally have: it lacks research. The writer never ever say the complete name of the characters (his Squadron Leader, etc), only give us a few first names (like "Robert" ou "Werner"). Even his Squadron number is not told to the reader.Not one single date of events is given in the entire book! The weakest point is when he says his friend Werner shot down a RAF Spitifire over France, and the pilot was captured, and he says he wore the Victoria Cross. Well, only one RAF fighter pilot won this decoration in WW II, and he was Flight Lieutnant James Nicholson in the Battle of Britain. And Nicholson never was shot down over France, nor been taken prisoner!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing but a bunch of words put together!!!,
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This review is from: Heaven Next Stop: A Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot at War (Hardcover)
Mr. BLoemertz (or his editors, I don't know) out together a terrible book, with no data, no sequence of events, which makes it one of the worst first-accounts WW II books I ever read! It seems like all is fake (although Bloemertz really served in JG 26). I don't recomend it to anyone.
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