Alfred Price

[Marcel van Heijkop]

Hi Chris/Nick,

I'm indeed looking for early I./KG66 material such as the Do 217 E/K/M and early Ju 188 E and for info about Hans Altrogge himself. (In fact, Altrogge was involved in this period as he joined I./KG66 almost from the beginning.) To my knowledge, Alfred Price was the first researcher to contact/interview Hans Altrogge and at a time when Altrogge was still relatively young. (I met him when he was in his late 70s.) Price was stationed as an officer with RAF Germany (RAF Laarbruch? RAF Bruggen?) at the time IIRC from Altrogge during our own interview.

As I started relatively late with the LW hobby, I'm not familiar with Price's earlier work and therefore don't know the books/bits of interview Nick refers to. I would be very interested in having these fragments or the original/complete interview (if that survived) of course. (Chris, any idea?) I'm aware of the few (and often published) pictures of the Ju 188 E with Y-Antenna on top of the canopy and the gun turret removed which are apparently coming from Altrogge via Price. (I would be very interested to hear what the actual captions are, though..) Any new Altrogge pictures would be great, I never completely figured out what actually remained as Altrogge had his own, strong ideas what kind of pictures researchers should be interested in ! (Altrogge was clearly not a modeler ..)

Thanks in advance,

Marcel