Bill Starke of the "Vampire Squadron" (44th FS) is selling his book!

[Lagarto]

Lt.Col. William Starke, a veteran of the 44th FS, is selling his book titled "Vampire Squadron" on Ebay (for US $39.95 a copy). It's a very rare title, and I was delighted to get in touch with him. He wrote to me:
"We were the leading fighter squadron in the 13th Air Force with 169 planes shot down. My book is loaded with photos. I somehow survived 121 combat missions"
Today I picked up my signed copy

Here's the link:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=230302029632

[JACK COOK]

Bill is a great guy and a good friend. I've got a lots of other photos and material about Bill and the 44th FS on my webpage.
http://groups.msn.com/44thFighterSquadronTributePage
Jack Cook-historian
44th FS Association

[JACK COOK]

Capt Bill Starke OPS officer 44th FS 1945

[Kocab Zdenek]

Hi Jack,

Do you know the exact day of promotion of the following pilots

Cotesworth B. Head, Jr. to Capt
Robert B. Westbrook, Jr. to LtCol

I am interested in US Aces and unfortunately the data and details about them are not mentioned by Frank Olynyk in his book Stars and Bars.

All data will be used for my own needs and will not be proveded to the third party and not be published.

My email addresses are Z.Kocab@seznam.cz or kocab.zdenek@ktvmb.cz.

Cordially Zdenek Kocab

[JACK COOK]

I've got all the records but their in storage now.
I'll look and see what I can find.

[FalkeEins]

Originally Posted by Lagarto

Lt.Col. William Starke, a veteran of the 44th FS, is selling his book titled "Vampire Squadron" on Ebay (for US $39.95 a copy).

Thanks for the heads-up ! Any idea of page count and number of pics in the book please..?

Fabulous site Jack !

[JACK COOK]

Thanks for the kind words!!!
I've got about 750 more photos to upload and all the MACRs ect.
Just not the time to do it!!