Hello
One more time congratulations to you Jean-Marc & Richard, for this stunning book.
More than a very serious and detailed study on this unit, this publication is a real
duty of remembrance for these young pilots send into the
“Big Circus” often just able to take off and land down. The story of some of them is just incredible or on the other hand so simple.
The iconography, with a lot of unpublished pictures, is highlighting the value of the text.
So for those ready to count the number of new photos or compare such or such version, to criticized eventually such or such point , I would just point out the workload , the time spent , the sacrifices done , the time involved in such a project .
The book is worthwhile for itself, because Jean-Yves succeeded to record and collect the souvenirs of those old men now and to gain their confidence.
How many of these former pilots of the Luftwaffe, even if some of them paid a high price 60 years ago, had their photos or personal documents stolen by so-called “Historians”?
I think, regarding the pages of the English draft I read and the hours spend to talk about it with both of you, that one of the greatest purpose achieved is that these men
where not just “pilots of Me109G-6/As W.Nr xxxxxx, 9./JG300, shot down on 23 October 1944 , over Berlin at 09:15 by P-57 of 357th FG ” , but young men involved in the biggest European Aerial Battle , with the same reactions or jokes , hopes and fears the Allied pilots had on the other side of the Channel . They were just young pilots “on the other side “who had to do what they had to do because there was no other choice for them.
Et puis c’est un français qui l’a écrit ! On n’a pas les jeux olympiques mais on a l’histoire du JG300
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So nothing else to add except buy it and read it. You will then notice the real value of this book.
Eric Larger