Bluenoser Tales

- a nice compendium of personal accounts from the 352nd FG

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Kaczmarek - a German view of the air war

the best first person ww2 book I have ever read was 'foot soldier' by roscoe blunt. an american GI and souvenir hunter and his no holds barred tales of the ETO. he describes some of the best action I have read. period. also " seven roads to hell" by....damn..I forgot his name and my brother has the 3 volume set...so I can't go look at them to see who they're by...Don somebody... getting senile early methinks...

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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility:but when the blast of war blows in our ears,then imitate the action of the tiger;stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;then lend the eye a terrible aspect. William Shakespeare

I have heard of this...by McBride...delta press has a reprint of it for 35.00 or so. check them out online. I have always wanted to read this book as it is very weapon specic with battle details of all of the period infantry weapons.

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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility:but when the blast of war blows in our ears,then imitate the action of the tiger;stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;then lend the eye a terrible aspect. William Shakespeare

Yes that was a good book. I read it several years ago and had forgotten about it.

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Best Regards,
JW

Donald burgett wrote currahee, road to arnhem, and seven roads to hell.Hope this helps cant have you going senile there's to many books still to be read

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WHEN YOU GO HOME, TELL THEM OF US AND SAY, FOR YOUR TOMORROW,WE GAVE OUR TODAY. Epitaph on the Kohima memorial .

Methinks that's one I'll have to look out for.....here's where they flew from : -

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"Stand by to pull me out of the seat if I get hit" - Guy Gibson

Monte cassino by Matthew parker, and in my on going quest to further my aviation knowledge of ww2, just picked up Tommy leader by Group captain Tom dalton-morgan, who flew 48 different planes in his career!

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WHEN YOU GO HOME, TELL THEM OF US AND SAY, FOR YOUR TOMORROW,WE GAVE OUR TODAY. Epitaph on the Kohima memorial .

Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945. Decent size book, broader than what I used to read. Figured I'd jump back into the WW2 reading with something a bit less specific than I used to read.

Good stuff so far, though for an English author, Hastings is pretty rough on his countrymen, especially Churchill.

Seems decent though... now if only I could get some of you gents to come over and re-do my yard/lawn and brew my homebrew for m, I'd have more time to read!

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Seriously, all today is missing is free cotton candy and the annual Bay State Hooker Parade to make it any better.

yes it was donald burgett! great books...also 'citizen soldiers' and 'band of brothers' were decent also. steven ambrose...*sigh* why did he have to die? Jeff- nice to 'meet' someone else who actually read Blunts book

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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility:but when the blast of war blows in our ears,then imitate the action of the tiger;stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;then lend the eye a terrible aspect. William Shakespeare

how do we find your 'rottiserrie in satans kingdom'? I'll bwew right over to help!

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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility:but when the blast of war blows in our ears,then imitate the action of the tiger;stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;then lend the eye a terrible aspect. William Shakespeare

Just finished "Alert in the west" by Willi Heilmann. I liked it alot. Many critics don´t seem to like books that mostly cover the pilots´everyday life and feelings but I think they´re marvellous!

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problem Kai is that it has been proven that some of the material in Willi's book is in doubt even from former Kameraden in JG 26/54. His escape to freedom has been called an act of pure cowardice by many ........

Ok, thanx Erich. Just gotta be a bit careful with the stories but nothing really "explosive" there, I think.

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After several months also managed to finish Joachim Fest´s " Plotting Hitler´s death". I guess one of the best books on the subject.

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I've just got this book to

Reading Me 262 V1,v2,V3 & V4 before I go to the Berlin air show this year

am curious in the Blue nosers book what it has to say about my cousins JG 301 as I filled the author Punchy Powell with some highlights awhile back. this was suppose to be a compedium to their excellent all blue hard cover 352nd fg history just breaking the day to day missions down a tad-bit more

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Erich,

..no, it's a book of stories; co-author is Mark Hamel, so in the style of his 'American Aces Speak' books... I've been in touch with 'Punchy' Powell re his German sources...I haven't discovered any references to JG 301 yet - but then its a big book...

Neil, Martin

..I haven't ever managed to locate a copy of the original 352nd FG unit history for under $250 so this book was a bargain at 39GBP from Roger Billings' Aviation Bookshelf, one of the two sources stocking the book in the UK. Super book - although I'm a little disappointed with some of the photo content & reproduction.. the images are very small in places and I think the 7 or so pages of artwork (paintings) could more usefully have been replaced with side-views or photos. Having said that the colour photos from Bodney in 1944 are worth the admission price on their own... oh and thanks for the Bodney pic Martin !!

also purchased recently - Eagle Editions Preddy monograph...24 page treatise on Preddy's P-51s with a free decal sheet ...well worth getting, if a little pricey ...

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Gents thanks for your input on the B.N's tall tales book I was privy to some of the materaisl back some 2 years ago and new it was going to be a first acct book which is excellent, I had sent some JG 301 info to Bob for the Nov. 21, 44 date and the March 2, 45 plus others so was curious if he mentions anything beyond engaging LW Fw 190's and Bf 109's ?

up to chaps but I think the B.N's history book and as you say Neil a bit overboard in price, if the association ever does a 3rd release pick one up at 65.00 US, but they may never happen but still a possibility they are allowing the throne to be passed downward to the younger Familie and hopeful they will take it in hand and keep the interesting newsletters afloat, several of the other US 8th and 9th fg's are doing the same as well as bomber groups.

Into the 3rd Reich with the Red Army by Evgeni Bessonov. I thought it was quite good, yet its only one of a few WW2 autobiographies that Ive read.

Im not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but is Black Edelweiss worth buying ?

i am mostly reading pascendale and the viz.yours,lee..

I am reading the "El memorial de Santa Helena" of Napoleon (written by Lescases)