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Originally Posted by edwest2
Missed this one.
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..sadly you didn't miss a lot. Not surprised there are no reviews. "Impressive original photos and documents" is incredibly misleading advertising. There are a handful of small dark images, no documents and one full-page shot of a crop-spraying Piper Cub. Thyben's WWII stories end on page 163 (of 286 pages) and appear to mostly comprise a compilation of all those 70s and 80s articles previously published in Jägerblatt that he used to send in from Columbia. The story of his DKiG award as presented by Göring - " oh, 33 victories, not bad, but you must shoot down more bombers" - is re-told again. October 44- May 45 (Kurland) comprises about 30 pages.
" Guten Abend, Junge Frau, mein Name ist Gerd Thyben, darf ich Sie zum nächsten Tanz bitten?"
about as exciting as it gets...I'd send it back, but it was cheap.