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Old 26th September 2014, 22:05
Larry Hickey Larry Hickey is offline
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Re: Bf 109 in Polish Campaign 1939

Hello,

Marius, yes we've also fully used as source material your articles in German as well as Polish. I want to clearly state that sources for all of our material has been carefully documented and will be fully acknowledged and footnoted. Although translating and using the information published by Marius, we've gone far beyond that back to both the same original source documents that he used, plus many other sources as well, some of which he used and some of which he didn't. The real value of this historical material is that it will fully exploit the source material on both sides, which have been carefully matched against each other to arrive at the best objective truth possible. As an example, with the 3rd Volume in Polish that Marius wrote,the German Stuka operations, we have obtained and translated into English all of the KTBs known to exist for both the StG and the Schlacht Gruppe, all of which Marius used in his excellent work on the subject. We've tried to go back to original source material wherever that has been possible, not just rely on secondary sources published by other authors. All of this source material has then been translated into English to allow it to be used in our project.

Another aspect that we've put considerable effort into is correlating reports on the ground for both the Polish and German sides of air attacks from the other side. This has provided, in many cases, a much better understanding of the results of bombing and Stuka attacks against targets on the ground. To my knowledge, this has never been done before in any systematic way.

Mars, no formal title yet. Just for now EoE Project Polish Campaign.

If anyone thinks that they have information or photos to help us create this monumental project, please get in touch with me. Even after many years of intense research and work there are undoubtedly some sources that we have missed.
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