Along with Adolf Galland's account of German fighter operations in WWII, Willi Heilmann's own record, originally published in 1955, has become a classic. ALERT IN THE WEST covers the author's personal involvement and action as a pilot with JG54 'Grunherz' from early 1944 until the end of the war. He joined III Gruppe, which was based in France while the Geschwader's other Gruppen were on the Eastern Front, and experienced the increased air activity from the Allies in their build-up to the Invasion.
Heilmann's Gruppe, in common with other Luftwaffe units were gradually pushed back by the Allied forces and regrouped to form the backbone of the hastily assembled Defence of the Reich.
Heilmann's account of those hard fought days flying his Fw 190 on innumerable daily missions ranks with the other 'classic' aviation histories of the Second World War.
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