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could you please provide some more details about this 109 book? (e.g. title, author, publisher, and/or ISBN.)
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Georg Hoch: Die Messerschmitt Me 109 in der Schweizer Flugwaffe - ein Stück Zeitgeschichte
Georg Hoch Publishing 2004
256 pages, ca 450 most previously unpublished photos, twelve in colour
First publication in 1999
2 nd revised issue in 2004.
ISBN 3 905404 10 9
Fr 75.- (ca € 50.-)
More info (in german):
http://www.georg-hoch.ch/28201.html?...ession*id*val*
I bought it here - a nice and friendly bookshop:
http://www.schreibers.ch/de/content---1--1008.html
I´m just busy with reading - very interesting details, especially about the 1940 clashes with the Reich and the 1944 Swiss deal of late-war 109s. Covers all encounters and shotdowns of Luftwaffe and USAAF planes.
E.g. did you know the fact that Switzerland considered the license production of the He 112 with Hispano-suiza engines? And that the mid-war low tails of the first G-batch were exchanged against freshly-produced tall units in the last months of the war? Very amazing what was possible in these days.
The quality of the delivered G-fighters is discussed, too. The deficiencies of the DB engines are pictured comprehensively. Though the profiles don´t reach the quality of recently published books Imo a very recommendable publication.
Regards
Roland .