Forgotten Heroes - Hungarian Aces of the WW II

[Csaba B. Stenge]

Originally Posted by Many Souffan

Hello Csaba.

I work for the French Editions TMA (Airmagazine, les Ailes françaises, HS Airmag & Ciel de Guerre) and as I told you, we are very interested by your book for a French Edition.

So tell us how to have a sample of your book.

Ps: With regard to the George Punka's excellent book, is it your book brings new information on the Hungarian 109 ?

Ps: you can send me an email to my office for more details: tmaeditions@aol.fr

By advance thank you

Many,

I'll send you an e-mail today.

Well, comparing it with György Punka's book: the Messer is mostly a type history and my book is the history of the men. However, my book contains many unknown particular Bf 109 WNr's and codes as well (exact planes of the aces)

My book contains the following chapters, important parts (here are the main titles):
Dedication (by the eldest living Hungarian ace)
Foreword
Introduction
Short history of the Hungarian air victories (all victories)
The determination of the air victory, confirming system in Hungary
Tactics in air-to-air combat (not just fighter, but assault, bomber, recce, etc and how is it changed during the war)
Awards
Rank comparing table (RHAF, Luftwaffe, VVS, USAAF)
Foreign expressions and abbrevations

Fighter aces over 20 victories
Fighter aces over 10 victories
Fighter aces beween 9-5 victories
Reconnaissance aces (two long recce pilots, who reached the acedom)
Bomber ace (one 2 mot bomber pilot)
Assault ace (an Fw 190 pilot)
Ace in the Luftwaffe (many pilots served in the Luftwaffe with Hungarian roots, but this particular one was a Hungarian citizen, was trained in Hungary and served in the RHAF before volunteered to the Luftwaffe)
The others (the pilots, who were wrongly mentioned in some sources as aces and the pilots, who claimed individually 5 or more kills and at least, 2 of them were confirmed)
Sources

At the pilot biographies, I followed this method:
at first, a block with the following details (at every ace, if these details remained)
Name
Number of air victories
Successes against ground targets
Number of combat sorties
Number of flying hours at the air force
Nickname
RHAF ID number

Then, the list of the awards (Hungarian and foreign, with the awarding date, d/m/y)

Then, list of the air victories (date d/m/y, type, exact area)

After it, his very detailed military biography (schools, training, units, very details of the claims, sometimes with the short bio of the opponent, etc)

Sorry, I cannot write more about the book in this way, you should see it (I don't want to 'hype' myself, but a veteran, who read the manuscript, simply said: 'It is the best Hungarian avition book, which was ever written' - altough he evidently exaggerated, it was a huge work and its an unique material)

See you soon,