JG 300 book

[Erich]

Bernhard :

Sie werden erfreut sein zu hören, dass die militärische Laufbahn ihres Vaters in das Buch "Moskitojagd über Deutschland" Eingang finden wird.

Bitte richten Sie Ihrem Vater meine herzlichen Grüße aus.

mit freundlichen Grüßen

Erich Brown, Gordon Permann

[Jean-Yves Lorant]

Lieber Bernhard,

Ganz herzlichen Dank für Deine freundlichen Zeilen, die mich an unserem Treffen in Gersfeld an der Wasserkuppe sehr nachdenklich gemacht haben - es freut uns besonders, daß Du auch unsere Chronik für gut befunden hast. Der Band 2 (franz. Auslage) wird innerhalb von fünf Tagen erscheinen. Ich melde mich demnächst schriftlich mit Farbmaterial bei Dir...

Alles Liebe und Gute, Bernhard - und bis auf bald

Dein Jean-Yves

[John Beaman]

This is a great thread with well-deserved comments on a great book. but, can we keep the replies in English for the rest of us who would delight in sharing the comments and information.

Thanks

John Beaman
Moderator

[bernhard mitterdorfer]

Dear John!

Will be done in the future

I m the son of one of the old JG 300 pilots and that for interested in this topic.
I hope Brown/Perman s book will come in the near future- there are some veterans waiting, and it isn t that those people has a lot of time!!
Lorant/Goyat s book is really good stuff - the french edition is great, for the english edition i am waiting since August, but the shipping to german booksellers obviously takes time.

Bernhard

[PhilippeDM]

Heard yesterday from my favourite Brussels Bookshopkeeper: Volume II from Docavia (French edition) is announced and should be there before Christmass.

Very best regards,

Philippe

[O.Menu]

Found Vol2 French edition in the mail box this morning -

Exactly same good feelling as for the first one

[FalkeEins]

raconte un peu...

[O.Menu]

Ok, ok... i was only able to turn pages for 10 mn this morning before running to work and then post on the forum. I finally come back home only after midnight, and do some search to answer Simon about the He162. Now it's near 2am so excuse if i m short:

- as big as Vol 1: 350 pages

- Chapters:
1: the Netherlands: 16 Sept44 - 2 Oct44
2: Last reinforcements: 3 Oct44 - 23 Nov44
3: The climbing: 26 Nov44 - 20 Janv45
4: Incursion on the East Front: 21 Janv45 - 24 Fev45
5: Last jerks: 22 Fev45 - 8 Mai 45

- very same very good quality paper and big format photos

- if i m right 14 profils from C.Sundin and 4 from R.Goyat. Those last as in vol 1 unfortunately again slightly too much contrasted in the printing process.

- some very interesting photos: I will extract 4:
* one showing a pilot in is Bf 109 from above with knees in contact with both side wall from the cocpit
* one color photo which confirm black nosed JG 300 aircraft at the end of the war
* one we already viewed here on TOCH showing a JG 301 Fw 190A with white horizontal bar (J.Y Lorant also though this one is from I./JG 301 ) and overpainted fuselage number which is actually a very famous Fw 190 previously from JG 300 !
* And finally a JG 300 pilot took a photo from his last flying equipement: a map, a knife, flying google, yellow "Deutsche Luftwaffe" arm band,... and the clock from his instrument panel
>> I though to remember that this clock was very personnal and that the pilot took it with them when they left the cockpit could anyone confirm this?

2h30 am time to sleep a little, Cheers, Olivier...

[O.Menu]

forgot to mention about the appendices:

- list of the victories
- list of the losses
- Luftflotte6 units and airfields (but not airplanes) from 6th May 45 and an uncredible less detailed same kind of statement from 7th May 45 !

[Jean-Yves Lorant]

Hi Olivier

The sheer relief and pleasure that we should have felt on the publication of Vol II of our history of JG 300 - after 25 years research and writing - has been somewhat tarnished by the stupidity of a picture editor at the French publishers Larivière. Against our wishes, the photo on page 17 of Volume II has been gratuitously retouched - a large defect just above the Staffel number 12 on Ofw. Otto Hehlert's Bf 109 G-14/AS (9./JG 300) has been removed. The authors weren't consulted of course. Fortunately this detail did not escape our good friend Claes Sundin, who has produced a magnificent profile of this machine on page 18. The 'curse of Lariviève' also struck on pages 180-181- the contrast compared to the original photos is much reduced. The authors have taken the publishers to task for this and other calamities, notably the two colour pictures in Vol 1 that were printed in black and white (page 66). Purists now have a number of additional reasons to prefer the Eagle Editions productions of the two volumes of our JG 300 history.
The Larivière JG 300 volumes are otherwise superbly printed and while these 'faults' may appear unimportant when set against the 350 pages of each book, I nonetheless felt it should be pointed out that Richard Goyat and myself were not responsible. While I'm here, I'd like to warmly thank Claes Sundin for his superb profile artwork. He met all the editor's deadlines despite the workload....Merci et bravo, Claes ! Thanks to our friend Joël Taton - Larivière's talented graphic artist- who really got into the subject and produced a superbly laid-out book..
The French edition - unlike the American - does not feature an index.. However we have reproduced the most spectacular pages from the Flugbuch of Oberleutnant Kurt Gabler- featuring the last flights of the infamous Bf 109 G-6 'Red 8' - with its seventeen victory markings - for the benefit of our friend 'Bobo'. Perhaps now he's confronted with the evidence - Gabler did not fly a machine with a black Staffel number - as he persists in believing....
Congratulations for your work about JG 301 late-war markings, Olivier - et bonne lecture !

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