"Ace of Hearts" ("Kőr Ász") History of a fighter squadron 1936-1941

[Csaba B. Stenge]

Hello Mirek,

Thanks. It is a must to publish these materials in Hungarian language first, maybe an English edition will follow as well.

Of course, it contains many details about the dogfights and every claims/losses as well (including an unpublished first hand account of a 88 IAP's pilot, who claimed an air victory against a Hungarian plane) It contains in details the story of the two pilot losses as well and their fates (including the details of the strafing mission, in which Pettendi was lost: details abut the target Soviet transport plane, and the fate of the Soviet leader, who remained in the cauldron, after the pane was strafed and destroyed, etc)
It is a very detailed and as accurate, as possible material.

Regarding the photos: I don't want to disappoint you, but I am afraid, the mentioned photos generally are not from László Jávor's collection. Most of them (all?) are repros from the genuine positives, stored at the family of Pettendi. I used these photos as from the Pettendi family collection (since I know them very well) or some of them as HTM (since the museum owns genuine photos as well).

BTW it seems to me, that some fellows bought these repros and use them as their own collection, but buying a repro's repro and using as 'own' is rather a breach of the copyrights (in one case, some of these photos were published with the credit to me - I never owned them and never stated, that these photos are mine)