I have been getting knocked around, by a Sciatica flare up again and with the M.S. already, I ‘ve been a lot slower and in great pain to move at all really.
Well, Last time out, when we had that freak 36.6c heat, I flopped in to the local library(Sorry Liby THEIR late back again!), and grabbed three quick book’s.
This is my Favorite.
Splash One.
The Story of Jet Combat. Ivan Rendall 1997 ISBN 02 47 81852 x
It’s a blooody Ripper book, I’ve done it about three time’s.
Magic just magic, I would recomend it to anyone who has not read it.
The W.A.A.A.F Book 1984, Edited by Clare stevenson and Honor Darling.
ISBN 08 68806 15 14
Now that’s one for the lady’s perhap’s, BUT I really did find it quiet funny and interesting, and I learnt a few new bit’s of Oz WW2, I had NO idea about.
Unit’s of the Royal Australian Air Force.
A concise history
Volume 3. Bomber Units
ISBN 0644 42795 7
ISBN 0644 42793 0 (The Set)
10 altogether I am almost through them now, They really are very well done book’s, I would love to have the Set at home.
Have really enjoyed my RAAF trip with these book’s, they have a lot of the little thing’s that happened, and have given me a better understanding of my Erk Grandfather’s WW2 adventure’s
NOT a South Pacific Holiday!
Ciao!
By: STORMBIRD262 - 7th November 2006 at 10:46
H’mmm, Yes I have to keep an eye out for that one.
Done heap’s of 262 stuff, got past ” The can it carry bomb’s ” bit long ago, Tactical like I understand why old dolf requested it, would have been top stuff for hammering the beache’s D-Day, In Bang and out fast!!.
Mr first and Last was also correct, with what to do with the 262, but the Aircraft, the Donk’s, and the virtual end of the Luftwaffe, and German war machine saw to the end of all those dream’s.
The dude sure was a dreamer, Must have been a MAD Buck Rodger’s fan old Dolfey.
But as a fighter or fighter-bomber, the 262’s were really never up to scratch during WW2, the flame out’s and self destructing engine’s, gear letting go, and poorer training, plus the fact that it was just so damn new, a totally new experience for all, who had in service hand’s job’s on with these Aircraft.
I think there was at least one Ex Bomber pilot, that converted sucessfully, but many many more 262’s and pilot’s were lost in accident’s, other than combat, and bombed field’s.
Anyway, I don’t really want to turn this in to a 262 thread, that will do.
Ciao all
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By: Dakkg651 - 7th November 2006 at 09:11
Stormbird
There is a good history of the 262 written by Mano Zeigler called Hitlers Jet Plane – he also wrote Rocket Fighter. Cracking read. It certainly dispels the myth that the delay to the 262 was all Adolfs fault. Also I have just finished reading Fire in the Sky by Amos Amir. This is the autobiography of an Israeli fighter pilot flying the Mirage during the major campaigns of the 60s and 70s and ended up as a Major General flying F16s – superb.
By: STORMBIRD262 - 7th November 2006 at 05:40
Thank’s DAK mate!
They did mention Thud ridge in Jet Combat, It’s on me list now, I had had a run through about Jack already in Chuck Yeager’s Bio book, interesting dude WW2 pilot that got canned big time during the Viet debacle for being a tad naughty.
H’mm might check out that other one too! Thank’s mate.
Trying to find a good one with WW2 Kraut 262 jet combat story’s, must be a few around the place, and in English of course, only German I really know I leant off Hogan’s hero’s.
Gota a bit of Kraut ancestry their but on mum’s side, Pfeffer’s like in as the great Waldo!!, mixed the with Pirate’s of Corwall Nank’s.
What a combo, make me as stubborn human as their can be!
And I fight on both’s side’s of my B of B Puter game, with no feeling’s of guilt(LoL)
I am mad to get at both’s side’s, bit like the Pom’s alway’s taking on their own ancestor’s the last hundred year’s of so hey!
Smacked me 109 right in too Big ben heap’s of time’s, and took out about 20 Kraut bomber’s last night on unlimited ammo setting, right back to frog land I chased em, and straffed em good on the ground too!
Till FLAAK got me in the end, too low to bail!
IT! happen’s
Ciao for now
By: mike currill - 6th November 2006 at 18:59
That’s given me food for thought. Both ‘Feet Wet’ and ‘Thud Ridge’ appeal to me.
By: Dakkg651 - 6th November 2006 at 18:45
Stormbird
Sorry to hear about your troubles.
If you like jet combat books have you read Feet Wet by Admiral(ret) Paul Gilgrist or Thud Ridge by Jack Broughton. Both give you the feeling of living with the authors in the cockpit. Brilliant.
Regards
Dakkg651
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