Chris Goss's Do.17 picture book

[Chris Goss]

Graham and All

Thanks for your constructive comments and for buying it! I agree that the text was not on a par with, say, 'Bloody Biscay' but the idea was to follow previous books in the Red Kite series (concentration on good photos with enlightening text only) and that this one being the first German one (and was a little different than the RAF/USAAF predecessors).

As to the reasons for its adoption as a bomber, I did give the party line as well as the 'oh, its not suitable as a Lufthansa aircraft' story-I could find no firm evidence to support it was a propaganda spin but the initial versions did have the ability to carry passengers and mail (even though it would have been very uncomfortable!).

Agree that Romania had a few (this was passed to the publisher) and thanks for the Bulgarian info. Agree also that T5 was OBdL-I have photos of this on the S-0 and Do 215s; did not include the S-0 crash-landed photo as it was just another crash landed Do 17 (we could have put in 100s of these!) and did not show the camera installations.

Thanks also for your final comment-I wanted to do the Do 17 as it was almost obsolete by the Bof B and there appeared to be little published on it showing good photos

Chris