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Thanks Gents.

Laurent: I'm aware of the Airdocs Collections book. Had a chance to thumb through it 10 years ago, but my command of the French language - although restaurant-sufficient then, was/is not sufficient to have warranted the cost of the book.

Graham: good call. I'd forgotten about Eric Brown. I'll look up some of his articles in Air International.

Juha: thanks, I have that article in storage, along with the series on the Dornier 335. Now if I could only remember which box in the garage those magazines are sitting in!

The books on Watson's Whizzers are great reads as well. As entertaining are the anecdotes on the inter-Allied skulduggery on how to sneak in first and grab a prize before your rivals (i.e. between the US, UK and French science/engineering teams), which meant occasionally you got there just as the German forces were pulling out (occasionally before).

Regards, ...geoff