Dutch Airfields Study

[Del Davis]

Can someone provide insight into the status of this work? I believe one or two volumes were the intended results but nothing to my knowledge has been published.

[Marcel Hogenhuis]

Hello

Thanks for showing your interest in this project which is still running. At the moment a two year period of reorganizing the three different Dutch military history sections (army, navy and airforce) into the NIMH has come to an end. This reorganisation was started soon after the decision that the airforce history section would publish the manuscript. This delayed the whole process and the outcome was very insecure.

Recently the project has taken up again after a long and labourous effort not to waste what was composed in so many years. Soon we will know the new time scedule. At the moment, several chapters are updated with info that has come up since.

Whether these book(s) will be published in 2007 is not clear yet, we - the authors - will be informed next Friday.

All the best, Marcel Hogenhuis, secretary Airfields Working Group

[Jim P.]

Marcel, weren't you also working on a KG 66 history? Was that your own project or from the study group as well? Any news on that front?

[Del Davis]

Jim
You have the wrong Marcel! I made the same error in reverse. See the thread about the Ju88s-3s at Sola for an update on the KG66 history.

[Del Davis]

perhaps Marcel Hogenhuis could provide an update as to progress on this project

[Jaap Woortman]

Originally Posted by Marcel Hogenhuis

Recently the project has taken up again after a long and labourous effort not to waste what was composed in so many years. Soon we will know the new time scedule. At the moment, several chapters are updated with info that has come up since.

Whether these book(s) will be published in 2007 is not clear yet, we - the authors - will be informed next Friday.

All the best, Marcel Hogenhuis, secretary Airfields Working Group

As a follow-up on Marcel's posting I can tell that according to the planning of the NIMH the book will be ready for publishing end 2008. The original manuscript had enough material for two volumes but we agreed with the NIMH management that the book will be published in one volume. It is possible that parts of the original fotomaterial, maps, listings of units will by added to the book in a CD or DVD.
If new information will be available we will inform you.

Jaap Woortman
Chairman Airfields Working Group.