I have located a good second hand copy of this book in hardback for a very decent price, so have now got another angle on the Bag the Hun scenario project, this time focussing on the Luftwaffe. The blurb for the book sounds very promising, with a lot more potential detail to flesh out some historical background and fill in the details:
Created from elements of I./JG 77 and IV./JG 1 in January 1942, Jagdgeschwader 5 Eismeer is one of the lesser-known German fighter units of the Second World War. It nevertheless had an impressive operational history, as this book shows. The unit's successes were equally great. The Geschwader's ranks included a number of outstanding fighter pilots who marked JG 5 and accounted for a large percentage of its victories: names like Bartels, Brunner, Carganico, Dobrich, Dorr, Ehrler, Linz, Mors, Muller, Norz, Schuck and Weissenberger will always be associated with JG 5. Produced on the initiative of the Eismeerjager Veterans Association, this account of operations by JG 5 is intended to further round out the history of the German fighter arm and provide the reader with a picture of the fighting in the far north.
In addition, I have been skim-reading the Osprey book on Arctic Bf-109 and Bf-100 Aces, which has some equally inspiring content for some interesting scenarios. One event that caught my eye was an escort mission for Heinrich Himmler's Ju-52 transport, which he was using on an inspection tour of Jagdgeschwader 5 in 1942. Nothing actually happened but it would make a brilliant 'What If?' game should the local VVS Hurricanes have been stooging about at the same time?
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