Re: Ju88 losses over Tobruk 16th Jan 1943
 

Hello NICK,

I remember well that Richard was very anxious to edit and have the work published. Certainly the Aerial and Historical Community (we included) will receive this work with pleasure (and read it avidly too).

Since you Edited the work, we can wait for a masterpiece then...

Maybe Xmas will bring us this new biography...and let's hope Richard is all right, in health and Peace too.

Thanks Nick for the message and information...by the way, since you read the raw material, how long is the book and how deep it is? I mean, does it cover all Oxby flights and trainings, all his victories were matched (100% or 90%, etc.)? Are there pictures of some of the LW airmen he flew against, etc.?

Adriano B.

Re: Ju88 losses over Tobruk 16th Jan 1943
 

148,000 words unedited and 87,000 edited. It started just before he joins the RAFVR in 1940 and went on through the war. I didn't have all the potential illustrations, so I can't answer your last point.

Re: Ju88 losses over Tobruk 16th Jan 1943
 

SO 1/16/43 5. LG 1 F Tobruk (Zielgebiet) Abschuß durch Beaufighter, 98.Sq (16./17.1.43) Ju 88 A-4 142305 L1+EN 100 Ogfr. Scheda, Horst KG, (+) Ziel: Schiffe bei Tobruk Nordafrika (B) Gefr. Gehrken, Hans [KG] / (Bf) Uffz. von Killich-Horn, Hans [KG] / (Bs) Gefr. Scheideck, Arnulf [KG] 1-3-0-0 Iraklion

SO 1/16/43 5. LG 1 F Tobruk (Zielgebiet) Abschuß durch Beaufighter, 98.Sq (16./17.1.43) Ju 88 A-4 142319 L1+FN 100 Ltn. Schmitz, Werner vm. Ziel: Schiffe bei Tobruk Nordafrika (B) Uffz. Keller, Anton [vm.] / (Bf) Ltn. Denzin, Heinz [vm.] / (Bs) Ogfr. Rampelberg, Josef [vm.] 4-0-0-0 Iraklion

Re: Ju88 losses over Tobruk 16th Jan 1943
 

Genlemen,
I have 6N + DP sa also Jean-Louis Roba

Rüdiger

Re: Ju88 losses over Tobruk 16th Jan 1943
 

Shouldn't that be No. 89 Squadron, rather than 98?

Re: Ju88 losses over Tobruk 16th Jan 1943
 

NICK and OXBY,

Would you have any news about the biography of the greatest RAF R/O of WW2? Am surely one of the new readers when it will appear. Please do keep the Community and Members of this Board informed if and when it eventually got published...

Adriano.

Re: Ju88 losses over Tobruk 16th Jan 1943
 

Sorry Adriano,

Absolutely nothing to report. My emails went unanswered and I don't know what happened either to Richard Oxby or the manuscript, which is a great pity.