[Frank Olynyk]

I talked with Chris on Saturday night, about cabbages and kings, and manuscripts. Volume 4 of 2nd TAF has just been published. At present he is finishing the details on the FAA history, having completed the index and photo captions. The book is scheduled for a June 5 release. Once the details have been taken care of he will take a short break for various family matters. He will then return to the manuscript of volume one, with the hope of turning it in before the end of the year, and (again, hopefully) publication in the spring. Volume one goes to mid-January 1942, and will be bigger than the original Fighters Over the Desert, with probably two more volumes to complete the Tunisian campaign in May 1943. If all goes well (economy, sales, health, etc) he will start the next volume next year with the hope of turning out a new volume in two years. However he would like to temporarily skip the North African campaign so he can research something new. The plan is to pick up at the end of the Tunisian campaign and go to probably the end of October 1943. I would then expect him to swing back and forth between North Africa and the 1943-45 period until completing the entire series. The final number of volumes has not been determined.

Please note the number of occurances of the word "hope" in the above.

I read Chris some of the recent responses to this thread and he was very pleased at the support shown.

Enjoy!

Frank.