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Originally Posted by John Manrho
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.
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..I might not be impartial ..but I'm not going to apologise ..
.... one reason why the JG 300 history has to rate more highly in my book - it was painstakingly assembled piece by piece from a starting point of nothing..not even a single diary ...to over 500 pages of text - it always amazes me that German 'historians' working in Germany managed to produce a two volume 'work' on the unit with
no text and over 400 errors in the photo captions (Bethke and Hennig) - ever wondered why there is
nothing - or as good as - on III. & IV./JG 300 on the JG 300.de web site..? Because as the author points out in the interview on my site he had realised what was happening by that stage & didn't circulate photos or contacts from vets of these Gruppen..
and when dealing with unit histories, the photographic aspect is important - having seen some of the material he didn't get, I would go so far as to say that Caldwell's
photographic coverage is actually pretty indifferent, possibly because he didn't/couldn't get out there among the veterans.
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