Warriors & Wizards: Thanks!

[mjbollinger]

Hi everyone,

My book is finally out...

Bollinger, Martin J. Warriors & Wizards: The Development and Defeat of Radio-Controlled Glide-Bombs of the Third Reich. Annapolis, Naval Institute Press, 2010. The book jacket includes endorsements from Rick Atkinson and Ulf Balke, amongst others. I'm pretty happy with it.

Many thanks to all those here who contributed to this. Lots of people on this forum helped and I give credit to them in the book itself. Here my objective is to thank everyone who helped create this forum and to all of the participants who have helped make it so valuable. It is a wonderful resource for historians, professional and amateur (me) alike.

Marty

[John Vasco]

Shouldn't this be in the 'Books & Magazines' section...?

[mjbollinger]

Sorry -- this is the only section I've ever used. Didn't even know about the other.

My apologies for the apparent transgression.

Marty

[John Vasco]

No sweat. You might get a bigger take-up on the book in the other section.

[Ruy Horta]

Hi Marty.

Not a big deal. I've boved the thread and changed the title to reflect the subject.

[edwest]

Hi Marty,



Congratulations. Being in the book publishing business myself, I know the feeling.

By glide bombs, I assume you mean types like the Hs-293. Did the Hs 294 see combat use? The Hs 295? As you can see, I'm interested to know if later developments actually appeared in combat.


Thank you for your time.




Regards,
Ed

[Dénes Bernád]

Originally Posted by edwest

Did the Hs 294 see combat use? The Hs 295?

Hs 294, around 165 built. Not used in combat (lack of proper carrier aircraft and production capacity).
Hs 295, around 50 built. Not used in combat.
Hs 296, not used in combat.
There were also the Hs 297 (Hs 117) and Hs 298, too.

[steve51]

Mr. Bollinger,

I just received your book today in the mail. Although I haven't begun to read it yet, I of course looked through it and am impressed. It seems well researched and dense with information. I'll begin reading it in a few days and I'm looking forward to enjoying it. Thank you for producing what promises to be an excellent book.

[Huib Ottens]

Dear Mr. Bollinger,

I read your book with great interest and must congratulate you on a well researched and highly detailed book.

It was a great read, and seeing that you used "41 Sekunden bis zum Einschlag" written by Klaus Deumling as one of the sources for your book, I decided to read that book as well. I found it to be a very interesting personal account that presents detailed information from the German side.

After reading this book I have a question:
Klaus Deumling states that the Fritz X bomb that was dropped and guided by Unteroffizier Penz from his aircraft was the first one to hit Battleship Roma. In his book he presents a copy of the document that acknowledges his crew as the one that damaged battleship Roma. This document is signed by Geschwaderkommodore Major Jope.

In your book you state that the first Fritz X bomb was dropped and guided by Unteroffizier Klapproth from the aircraft of Geschwaderkommodore Major Jope.

Did your research yield conclusive information that the crew of Major Jope was responsible for the first hit?

By the way:
Klaus Deumling is the subject of an article in the last (January) issue of the German magazine Flugzeug Classic. Mr. Deumling is still active and acts as a guide in the German Aviation Museum Laatzen near Hannover.

Nurflügel Forever!

Huib Ottens

[Brian]

Hi Marty

I recently obtained a copy of your book. Very interesting and useful to my own work.

Well done.

Cheers
Brian