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Originally Posted by Bruce Lander
Hi,
It's interesting sometimes to look back at old posts - this one caught my eye as I have just read Dilip Sarkar's latest "Spitfire -Ace Of Aces" a full bio on Johnny Johnson ( incorporating his 2 previous volumes - Spitfire Top Gun 1+2 and adding the final months of Johnson's combat career).In it on pp273 he attributes Wally McLeods loss to Major Siegfried Freytag the acting Kommodore of JG.77 ! and not to a JG.76 pilot - does this stand up ?
Cheers
Bruce Lander
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Bruce:
Wow! I missed this somehow.
Wing Leader was an early read of mine way back when (let's just say it was before cars had fins
). What's the evaluation of Sarkar's book on Johnson?
It always mystified me whay he scored no victories for the last 7 months. Does this book look at that issue?
THX