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Re: Henschel 129's in France & Family History
As for Dive-Bomber and Ground-Attack Units of the Luftwaffe 1933-1945, it is available from Amazon US. I received my copy yesterday.
The monograph is overwhelmingly about the untis rather than the aircraft. So if you are looking for a monograph on aircraft and their development, this is not your book.
First impression only, but the unit operational histories appear to be quite straight forward and would provide a quick reference.
But as with all first impressions, I had a couple of "what the ..." experiences.
For example on page 40 at the top is an ordnance diagram for the Ju 87. The authors note that on the Ju 87D-1 there was no instillation of the trapeze bomb carrier. Is this true, or is it just that the diagram did not show it?
Also,on page 28 there is a picture of a captured Ju 87G-2 at Pilsen with the yellow nose band. The cation indicates that the band was adopted on the Eastern Front in the autumn of 1944 to distinguish German aircraft from Russian aircraft. A bit late I think. This was the Luftflotte 4 adoption of a marking to differentiate German aircraft from Romanian aircraft, that may be still in German marking, on the Romanian Front.
Sorry if knit picking, as I noted I have merely scanned it so far and those issues are clearly unrelated to the purpose and intent of this monograph.
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Steven "Modeldad" Eisenman
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