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Re: That NEW JG300 unit history: How'd you rate it?
I think the main reason why JG 26 is covered in books so well and JG 2 not is that there is something I would like to call a "gliding slope"..... JG 26 was always pretty well covered. First because of the considerable amount of records that are preserved, mainly because of the research done in 1950-1960's by Hans Otto Boehm and others, resulting in a.o. Prillers book. Furthermore other researchers like Gert Poelchau a.o. did build on that. Don Caldwell brought it further, especially to the English language world. JG 2 does not have that foundation. Herr Voss (a former II./2 pilot) was working on the JG 2 history for many years but because of health problems there was little progress. I remember also that when Ron and I asked JG 2 veterans for help on the 1.1.45 story several were hesitant to help because "Herr Voss was working on the Geschwaderchronik". Luckily this was overcome and we got some help, but it wasn't what I had hoped for.
Hopefully the new work on JG 2 will gives us a proper Chronik.
Cheers,
John.
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