[nick de carteret]

Finally got around to reading 'The Big Show' and whilst agreeing that it is a well written and exciting pilot journal, one has to be truely amazed at some of the laughable inaccuracies that it contains. The most blatant would be the Chapter on Nowotny, which has him shot down and killed by Closterman's section in March '45 while in command of JG 52, with a photo purporting to be him, which is actually Max-Hellmuth Ostermann!

I presume with the book being written so soon after the war that very little research had been done but the talk of dogfighting with great hordes of Ta 152s in July 1944 really stretches the bounds of the book's credibility.