by Malcom V. Lowe
Softcover (7.25×9.75 inches). 96 pages. 2026.
Jabo was short for a fighter bomber, usually armed with a single bomb. What started as a German anti-shipping campaign in the English Channel morphed into nuisance attacks on small British towns. The damage, while personal to those on the ground, did little to alter the war but was a way for Germany to respond to British bombing. The coming of The Typhoon, D-Day, and suppression of the Luftwaffe made all such attacks limited at best.
Lots of first-person accounts culled from records pepper the text. Although most of these attacks were bomb and scoot, you can pull out tabletop aerial scenarios between German Jabos with a loose fighter escort going after a ship and the RAF interceptors.
One typo: “first Jabo attack off the year” (p32) is probably “of.”
The booklet contains 49 black and white photos, three color photos, one black and white illustration, and 22 color camouflage profiles of specific aircraft. The latter is always a delight for the modeler.
Enjoyed it.
— Reviewed by Russ Lockwood
