Eagle Editions' Fw 190 Dora vol. 1 book now shipping
 

Greetings all;
We are very excited to announce:
Jerry Crandall's book on the Fw 190 Dora Vol. 1 is now shipping!
Highlights include:
Study of five known types of gun cowls by factory
D-9 into service with III./JG 54
Pilot initial impressions
First losses and Victories
Excerpts of Hans Dortenmann's diary, detailed study of the three known phases of his colorful D-9 with the all-Yellow tail
Combat stories of D-9 pilots
Distinctive system of tactical markings and colors used by JG 301
Appx 365 Black and white photos, 40 color, many previously unpublished
72 color profiles by Thomas A. Tullis each with complete color and markings notes
Situation reports of JG 2 Dora activity during March 1945
Flugbuch excerpts from Dora 9 pilots
Accurate and detailed drawings
9" X 12", 344 all color pages
Standard and deluxe editions available.
Autographed leather bound limited edition signed by 9 Dora 9 pilots!
We are processing the orders based on the date the order was received.
If you need additional information or need to place your order, visit our site at http://www.eagle-editions.com/dorabook.htm
Thanks in advance!
Judy
Eagle Editions Ltd.

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Hi Judy... have you shipped to Amazon yet?

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Its BIG, FAT and in my hands...And no I am not in the bathroom! Today I received my copy Of Jerry's Dora book and WOW!
This book is all it is built up to be and more, You members will love it.
the photos are large and clear for 60+ year old reproductions. many color photos included and beautiful color profiles by Tom Tullis.
The pilot fist hand accounts are GREAT, Copies of Dora pilot Flugbuch's and several other type documents abound.
I got the Delux edition signed by Nine pilots.. and even the transparent cover page to protect signatures is excellent, Each pilots name and Unit is transposed over his signature when the page is over the signed page. A very nice touch.
All footnotes can be found at the bottom of the page listed, so no wearing the book out flipping to the rear for notes.
There are many surprises included I will not spoil at this time, so you all can find these on your own.
I spoke with Jerry tonight, and the gang at eagle has been very busy filling orders...So if you ordered from them you should receive your copy soon.
A tidbit for you, Amazon has not placed their order yet, so it may be a short time before anyone who ordered with them will receive their book.
I suggest ordering direct to get your copy QUICK.
YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!!!!!
Kevin

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Thanks for the info: I will check it out

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You should be receiving your orders any day now, if ordered direct through Eagle Editiones Ltd.
Also Amazon has put in their order with Eagle last week, from what I understand the order was the largest pre order for any book they have offered! so to me that means several enthusiasts have pre ordered the Dora book from Amazon.....
Again if you want this book NOW, Order direct for fast shipping from the Eagle site....If you placed an order with Amazon, you should? see your book in the next few weeks I hope.... Enjoy!!!!!
Kevin

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Update, Amazon has sold out and has placed a second order with Eagle....this book is a Monster and selling like hotcakes!
Order now direct at www.eagle-editions.com and you will receive your copy fast....Be sure to get the delux edition signed by nine Dora pilots for investment reasons! There were 300 signed books and less than 200 are remaining after one week release time!!!!
Kev

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..now that my copy is here, its easy to see what all the fuss has been about. I mean I'm not easily impressed - probably too blasé for my own good - but for what its worth this even tops the JG 300 books IMHO. The larger format certainly helps with the beautifully clear photo and artwork reproduction. Super pilot accounts, including a long passage from Roderich Cescotti (JG 301) and fascinating late-war stories from JG 2. Congratulations to the author (and Mrs C....) for putting it all together so consummately...!!

Eagle Editions' Fw 190 Dora vol. 1 book in France
 

The book is arrived in France (one week after the order). The book is very good, full of unpublished photos (there are around 30 color stills taken from films). In one word : it is a "must".
Forgive my very basic french.

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Judy, are you not supplying Amazon this time? I've just had an email to say that my order which was placed in July will not be delivered until January if at all. I use Amazon as it is the only way to get postage charges that are not half the value of the book when shipped to New Zealand.

If you could advise what is happening that would be really helpful... in the past Amazon have always been able to safely deliver Eagle volumes in a timely manner.

Thanks for any info.

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Got my copy on Friday, all I can say is WOW!

but I noticed a small error in the book probably...

on page 29, the caption to the picture of Fw. Ungar.
while stating that he was a very experienced pilot, only some lines further, it is stated that he finished the war with "28 combat missions" completed, a rather low score IMHO.

is this correct or this is an error?

otherwise, a great book about one of my favourite fighter aircraft of all time

cheers
phil

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Hi Nick;
Amazon has ordered over 400 books for their first placement and it has been shipped to their warehouse in Kentucky, here in the US. I emailed them on Thursday as to the status of shipping out orders. Because most all of these ordered books are backordered to customers, perhaps that is why they are saying that their next shipment out will be in January, don't really know. Hope to get a better answer on Monday but it does seem like it is taking a rather long time for them to process and ship.
In any event, they either have received their order or it will be delivered next week.
Keep me informed as I do want to know how our dealers are handling our customers!
Thanks,
Judy

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Hi Phil;
Thank you for your nice comments about our new book. In regards to your question about Fritz Ungar - he was a very experienced pilot. I did not imply that he was an experienced combat pilot or was an Experten with a lot of victories. If you read the caption under his photo on page 53 you will see why he was an experienced pilot.."he amassed many hours of flying time as an instructor pilot in 1942 and 1943"... qualifying him as an experienced pilot.
I hope this clears up your question,
Cheers,
Jerry

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Hello Jerry!

well, thanks for the comment, but it did not answer my question entirely;
the caption text for the picture states that Fw. Ungar joined his Staffel, 9/JG54 on the 7th August 1943 and flew the D9 for the first time in September 1944.
I cannot believe that he only flew 28 combat missions between August 1943 and the end of the war;
is this really correct?

anyways, the more I read in the book, the more I like it :)

three of my gems in my growing LW book collection now deal with the 190D and some more are still to come :)
I am really looking forward to Vol.II of your work!

many greetings from Vienna
phil

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Hi Phil;
It does sound a little unusual that Fritz Ungar only flew 28 missions, but I'll quote his letter dated 2003 to me capsulizing his flying and combat career:
"My first combat assignment was to 9./JG 54 on 7 August 1943 in Amsterdam until 6 March 1944. Up to 6 March I only had 11 combat flights. I was in a military hospital from 6 March (I was shot down over Berlin) to August 1944 because of an injury. To the end of the war I had only a total of 28 combat missions."
All of his information is recorded in his flugbuch of which we have a copy.
Hope this better explains his flying career.
Cheers,
Jerry

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Hi again Judy,

Thanks for bringing us up to date re Amazon... I will keep you in touch with how things proceed from here.

Nick.

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Hello Jerry!

thanks again very much for the clarification :)
it really sounds unusual for a LW pilot in the thick of the action to only have completed 28 combat missions, but thats the way life goes sometimes it seems.

having browsed through the book a little more deeply, besides abusing the 190D9 for FlightSimulator 2004, I have to second what Neil has posted about this book, simply stunning!

anyone who has not put up an order for it, do so immediately, you will not be dissapointed!

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Judy... just got an email to say that mine is on the way.

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Somthing I realized after reading the Eagle book, was I have for some time had a German-English / English-German Aviation Dictionary, Published by Ward Lock & Co., Limited. This was first published in 1957. The KICKER is it is written by Roderich Cescotti, I would never have probably known about this man if not for Jerry's book. It was just somthing I always had used for quick translation without ever giving the Author a second thought.
In itself a handy book, as it deals with only translations of words used in Pilot talk, including various weapons etc..... Also conversion charts, R/T Phraseology for a typical GCA approach and standard basic R/T Phraseology for GCA.
Kev

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Cescotti also wrote a book about German tactical military aircraft, published by Schiffer (English language edition)

this here:
http://www.amazon.com/History-German...6674261&sr=8-1

I did not know that he was a LW pilot before reading Jerrys book although I knew the name for years (from the German language edition of above mentioned book-although I do not have it [yet])...

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IIRC Cescotti was among the veterans quoted in a number of Alfred Price's books, including the original edition of "Battle Over The Reich" (1973 or '74).

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Hi Guys;
We've been getting some responses from the signatories of Jerry's book on his work on the Dora. We have posted some of their letters on our site at:
http://www.eagle-editions.com/dorareviews.htm
We have known General Cescotti and his lovely wife, having visited them in their home in Germany many, many times. They are terrific folks and he is a very knowledgeable man about the Luftwaffe, the men and the machines!
While you are on our site, we have posted the four newest EagleCals based on Jerry's Dora book at:
http://www.eagle-editions.com/decal108-111.htm

Have fun!
Cheers,
Judy

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Hi Jerry,

Your recent book, Fw 190D Vol 1, is absolutely splendid! And as you can imagine I ran to read about JG301 markings ;)

The good point is that we come more or less to the same conclusion J The alternate vertical white bar marking on “yellow 15” is a nice surprise. You have hawk-eye Jerry!

There is indeed one thing that as astonish me… Same as you and since it’s impossible to make the difference between green and blue on B&W photos, I firstly though that the groups horizontal color was in same order as it was usually for the fighter “staffeln” ( ie: white for the first, red for the second, yellow for the third, blue for the fourth and green for the Geschwaderstab)… But when I saw this blue horizontal bar on the NASM’s Ta 152 it seems obvious that blue was for the stab, when green left for the fourth group… Further more you explain us that Auffhammer developed this system marking proud of his bomber pilot background, and it is interesting to note that in KG units, blue is the Geschwaderstab color… On the other way it seems that guys from the NASM says that the Ta152 blue horizontal bar is a post war marking… But this looks simply impossible to me, I cant imagine a British soldier painting from his own a blue horizontal bar in correct size and position just before over-painting all this with a grey paint… Really hard to imagine…

So thanks a lot for this first volume that we will open again and again for so many years J

Olivier.

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Greetings! I spoke with Jerry tonight, and he tells me the chapter on the JV44 "Papageinstaffel" Dora's is prety much wrapped up.
We can look forward to approximately 60 pages in this chapter alone, Including at least 14 new photos.
This is subject to change if any new photos or info should turn up.
Jerry reports work on Vol II is progressing nicely, And from what I understand.... we can all look forward to another great Pilot signed, Delux edition to be released when Vol II is wrapped up in the near future!
Kevin

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Hi,

I have a question regarding this book. I have another Fw 190D book from another publisher which does not have the details of engine and supercharger information I was looking for. Is this book included information of the supercharger, colling ring design and the performance and problems back then?

Thanks.

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No, it does not. This is more of a personal and operational narrative with emphasis on individual machines. It does have a nice section on the different type of upper cowlings fitted at different times by different manufacturers.

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Too bad:( I´d also hope for a book that addressed cobrachen´s questions. But that would probably require an author with doctorate in other than Antomism...

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cobrachen, you are referring to the D. Herrmann book or the JaPo books?
I got the D. Herrmann book some time ago but did not find much time to really dive deeper into it, so I cannot say if it would be helpful concerning your questions;
www.spitfireperformance.com does have a nice article on Dora performance testing though;
maybe head there and see if this is useful for you...

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Gentlemen;
Volume Two of our book will have a lot of technical information, including an entire chapter on problems and complaints such as cowling change suggestions, radiator issues, cowling flap problems and more. There are a lot of charts, graphs and documents regarding engine performance with different settings and with/wo MW 50 etc. Most of these have been published and to a lot of people not all that interesting, and most cannot read them. However, we will publish some of this information that we feel is new and somewhat interesting.
Additionally there will be a chapter on some select parts, development testing and problems dealing with subtypes such as the D-11 and D-13.
Cheers,
Jerry