Sorry, Ive been day dreaming today, and had one of those thoughts…..
What Autobiographies would you have liked to have seen written and published, but sadly never were? It doesn’t matter if the person is still alive or not…
My choices would have been;
Pete Brothers….a career that would have made facinating reading
Hans Joachim Marseille….The story of the “Star of Africa” told by the man himself would have been priceless.
Ralph “Kid” Hofer….The original wild boy of the 4th Fighter Group! Wonder what he would have had to say if he’d written a book?
Any other ideas???
Regards;
Steve
By: WP840 - 13th November 2009 at 20:51
Manfred Von Richthofen. I know he wrote/dictated a biography in the latter part of WW1 but to have written it at the end of WW1 would have made for a cracking read. He would have been able to include a full account of how the head injury he received in combat on 6th July 1917 had really affected him and why he chose to continue fighting despite this.
By: DCK - 13th November 2009 at 20:39
Major Arne Austeen, killed 4th of May 1945
By: BSG-75 - 13th November 2009 at 19:36
If only
My grandfather was discharged from the army in 1938 on medical grounds and served as a fireman covering Southampton docks. I never knew until long after he died (1985) his brother, also a fireman was killed at the docks in an air raid and recently the Fire Service planted a tree and unveiled a small memorial at Winchester Fire Station where they were based.
Like countless others of the time, they served as bravely as anybody in the front line, and we know little about them.
By: flyingcloggie - 13th November 2009 at 18:52
Roger Bushell.
Willie Tait.
Dizzy addicot
we die try to sit down and record his stories. Sorry we did not succeed hè was some karakter.
Herman
By: trumper - 13th November 2009 at 16:50
I will go for something slightly different.
I would like to stop several strangers of ww2 service age and just ask them what they did.
I never found out what my great great Uncle did during WW2 until i went to his funeral and the vicar ran through his past life.It took us all by surprise as like many of those that served he never spoke to anyone about his war.
Sometimes the stories from the reluctant less famous need to be told as well 🙂
EDIT TYPED SAMETIME AS Roberts post but same type of ideas
By: Robert Whitton - 13th November 2009 at 16:50
I think the best autobiographies that anyone could wish for would be their Grandparents or their Great Grandparents for me that would beat any aviation ones!
By: D1566 - 13th November 2009 at 15:46
Roger Bushell.
Willie Tait.
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