Jagdstaffel 356: The Story of a German Fighter Squadron

A visceral and accurate firsthand account of flying with the Imperial German Air Force during WWI.

The airborne fighting squadrons of the Imperial German Luftstreitkräfte—known as the Jagdstaffel or Jasta—were a fearsome and elite force throughout the Great War. Though the entire force was dissolved and their aircraft destroyed by order of the Treaty of Versailles, the stories of the pilotremain in books like Jagdstaffel 356.

Although the author has given this Jagdstaffel a fictitious num...