shipping out this week, mine is ordered will let ya know for those ETO aerial nutz wishing for more. full of profiles and many many pics, short bio's on pilots and JG histories. My interest of course is for info on my cousins unit JG 301

more later ............

Is this the Hans Baer from Speyer?

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Skipper no, that is Siegfried Baer buried at Holtensen south of Hannover from 5./JG 301 shot down and KIA on 26 November 1944

Got my copy from the USA last week

uksubs so what do you think of it ?? so far ..........

great rendition of Gelbe 10 !

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yes I'm curious to know. I might ad it on my XMas want list

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[quote=Erich;253609]uksubs so what do you think of it ?? so far ..........

The book top class Erich
Well worth the money

so uk did you find the info on my cousins II./JG 301 interesting by Herr Cescotti ?? and the interesting looking TA 152H flown by Kommodore Aufhammer ??????

E ~ yes it's an excellent book

Ha ha! so I will add it on my Santa list. Thanks guys.

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be prepared Skipper to pay a hefty fee, but the book is big and thick with some wonderful colour profiles and also surprise............colour WW 2 photos included.

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I've only had a quick look of the book , but you can't miss Kommodore Aufhammer Ta 152
I'am looking at the photo of your cousin in the book now holding the model of his plane
I'am going to read the book in full when i get back from my hoilday

Ps i see you had a helping hand in the book

I got mine cheap from the USA

uk no that guys hand holding the model is Cescotti. ah you have me thinking now.......I am mentioned in the book but where ? my cousin was KIA in November 44 in a Fw 190A-9

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A hefty fee i expect I'm afraid . The shipping costs are killing me as most items come from overseas. Is the book available in the U.K. , the USA or both?

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..available here in the UK at the Aviation Bookshop- they do mail-order

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I was there last week-end at a signing event with some BoB vets..the Eagle book is piled up alongside the JAPO volume on the same type.... the JAPO book falls down in my view in a number of areas - interpretations of B & W images that are reproduced in colour in the EE book for one ..oh dear..

however I think the overall-red Ta 152 in the Eagle book from Cescotti's story should have been left out - it's a nice tale perhaps - but that is possibly all it was...(certainly no photographic confirmation..)

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Neil there is proof the Ta was that colour but yes I agree that Ta which the book was not about at all should of been left out for another special EE treat later on

..Erich,

..proof -other than the 'certificate' - and I'll take it all back ..but really the all-red Ta is the kind of story the vets tend to come up with in their late befuddled years when they realise that a researcher is interested in them....just look at what Cescotti has to say about JG 300 too in that story - accurate it is not

....so why all-red then ..? ..why not just the undersurfaces ..at least there is a precedent for that ...I have a similar problem with the artworks of Dortenmann's Dora...more fantasy..there exist just two very partial photos of his machine when it first arrived in the unit ..but to base three or four pages of profiles on what the guy wrote in his diary - well, makes for a colourful book, granted, but give the artist an inch and he'll take a mile ...guaranteed..more urban legends created in the process...

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