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Re: Grasshopper´s war
Michael
A good starting point with regard to the US Army and their "Grasshoppers" is to order their record cards from Maxwell.
I can give you a contact there if you are interested, just PM me.
It will not give you any history of those aircraft used by units outside USA, but it will give you an idea of how many that never got back to the USA, and hopefully also those sold post war from various Army storage facilities in Europe and Far East.
With regard to the British side (they basically only used one indigenous type) Air Britain will publish a detailed book about each Auster built including those used by the British Army. Don't confuse it with the one published this year.
The basic problem facing the MAW team (at least I think so) is the problem how to get hold of unit histories detailed enough to get individual aircraft details. I have a feeling the US Army was not as good as that as USAAF (and even they were now and then not 100% either).
Cheers
Stig
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