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Do 17 in Combat with the Luftwaffe
For those interested, I submitted words and photos yesterday. Text and appendices 61,000 words, 706 photos, 14,735 words of captions. These could go up or down slightly. Publisher will start work in August and I will keep you updated. I will admit that it has been a labour of love on an aircraft all but obsolete by the end of 1940
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Re: Do 17 in Combat with the Luftwaffe
Great new Chris, please keep us posted on any developments!
Best regs, Steve. |
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Re: Do 17 in Combat with the Luftwaffe
Thanks for the update! Got a spot reserved for it on the bookshelf next to your Fw 200 book.
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Re: Do 17 in Combat with the Luftwaffe
Excellent - there are too few books on the Do17, which after all, was a main player before and during the war. You did not say who is publishing your book?
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Re: Do 17 in Combat with the Luftwaffe
Great news! Congratulations!
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Re: Do 17 in Combat with the Luftwaffe
Chris, congrats!
Any words and photos of Do 17s above Belgrade in April 1941? Thanks. Djordje |
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Re: Do 17 in Combat with the Luftwaffe
Thanks all. Crecy is the publisher and it is being working on at the moment-word count gone up as has photo count. The part it played in the Balkans is covered with diary entries from two pilots who took part (albeit it was over and done with pretty quickly)
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Re: Do 17 in Combat with the Luftwaffe
Good to hear, should have given us a shout as have stuff on Frost and Yonge's encounter on 21 July 44.
Andy Bird |
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Re: Do 17 in Combat with the Luftwaffe
Dornier Do 17: The 'Flying Pencil' in Luftwaffe Service. A Combat and Photographic Record
(Crecy Publishing - upcoming / soon) by Chris Goss 304 pages w/ over 700 photos £50.00 - hardback - A comprehensive history of this most distinctive of the Luftwaffe’s light bombers. - The book provides a detailed history of the development and operation of the aircraft throughout its long career with the Luftwaffe and other Axis air forces that operated the type. - Heavily illustrated throughout with photos and artworks. Description "Designed both as a military and civil aircraft, the Dornier Do 17 ‘Flying Pencil’, so called because of its slender fuselage, was one of three twin-engined medium bombers in service with the Luftwaffe at the start of the Second World War. Its service with the Legion Condor during the Spanish Civil War, mainly in the reconnaissance role, so impressed the Luftwaffe that high priority was allocated to the aircraft as both a bomber and reconnaissance aircraft. The Do 17 was loved by its crews. It served over Poland, France and the Low Countries, Britain, the Balkans, Greece and the Soviet Union, often without escort and against increasing and improved fighter opposition. Despite a comparatively light bomb-load and limited range, the ultimate version, Do 17Z, possessed good manoeuvrability and during the Luftwaffe’s campaign against England in 1940, it was preferred for low-level attacks on British airfields and installations, though its lack of protection made it vulnerable. Though production ceased in October 1940, the sleek Do 17 could be found on the strength of Luftwaffe units to the end of the war operating as a glider tug, night reconnaissance platform, research aircraft and trainer. In this book Luftwaffe historian, Chris Goss, recounts the operational history of the Do 17, perhaps the least understood and often forgotten of the Luftwaffe’s medium bombers." http://www.crecy.co.uk/dornier-do-17 Last edited by Edward; 8th October 2019 at 13:40. |
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Re: Do 17 in Combat with the Luftwaffe
Thanks Edward. I feel it will be out before 31 March but as soon as I have a firm date, I will tell one & all
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