Gun Camera Film 25September1944

[Nokose]

From my understanding Spaete kept his gun camera film after the war. So it would have to be in possession of his family. Frames taken from it were in his book "Top Secret Bird".

[John Manrho]

Frames in his book are from other victories, not from 25th Sept 1944. Or am I looking at the wrong book (Der Streng Geheimer Vogel, the German version).

Cheers,

John

[hewasahero]

He was flying an Fw 190 on 25th September 1944, not an Me 163. Puzzled as to why Focke-Wulf frames would end up in a book about the Komet. Something's not adding up for me here.

Is there an acknowledged expert on this type of footage, and where it's archived?

Thanks!

[kaki3152]

Because the book was about his association with the ME-163 but also included details about his other assignments.

I consider this to be a superb book about the Luftwaffe Jadgwaffe, since goes into the lesser talked about topics such refusal to engage enemy formations, avoidance of combat, bailing out of FW-190 as soon as the enemy is sighted, etc. Spaete is candid in his opinions and hides some of his characters behind initials which are esay to figure out.