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Re: George Beurling--if looks could KILL!
Hi Nick
Nice to meet you! It's a shame about Clostermann, isn't it? Why he didn't stick to telling his own story - which was certainly something to be proud off - a dozen kills or so, two DFCs (no DSO!) and a masterly way of catching the readers' attention, I just don't know. I didn't have any contact with him and he lost credibilty when I first studied the various squadrons ORBs many moons ago. He is just not recorded as having flown on as many of the sorties which he claimed in his book. Others took his record to pieces, it was not something in which I was interested in doing.
However, there is no excuse for much of what he wrote in 'Flames in the Sky' - not only the alleged meeting with Beurling, and the piece about Admirals Ugaki and Fukada (Chapter Nine) piloting Ohka flying bombs on suicide missions is not true, either. I've said my piece.
Cheers
Brian
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