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Erich, and for those of you that are interested click on to the 'Times Online' and go to the obituaries page-somewhat rearranged by the paper, but the outline is there.

hi erich, sorry many nights in a hotel room-no computer-what a waste. Right i have all 3 volumes of 2nd TAf with me and british airfields volumes 1-10-so now i feel equipped to answer some 2nd TAF questions, fire away regards

and i have to say my father (with 23 squadron and the RAF since 1940)thought galland was a 'good egg'-and thought he had been given a bum deal at the end of the war

i think that it must be remembered that the air war, because it was often 1 on 1, did allow personal decisions on a greater scale-the last of an age of chivalry, that rarely existed on the ground-and due to information technology is even rarer now

I watched a discovery programme on the mustang p-51 battles over germany-one of the americans said he had just shot down his opponent-and after he had bailed out, before he pulled his ripcord,as the american flew past, there was the german pilot saluting him at terminal velocity-I think the...

it would be a pleasure-although i have to pick it up from mum-but if you have the info i will ask my brother who is up there this week-it would be good for me to do something for you additionally i have some tapes that have to be rerecorded and engineered-i went to see squadron leader dickie...

can one get hold of these reports-or a copy of, from NARA?

there is another mossie pilot i want to trace-from second TAF dont know him or his name-but he is the reason my father told the AVM 'Gongs!? I **** gongs!' ( and refused)-like Steinhoff he was still having plastic surgery 20 years after the war Do you want me to see if I can find a timeline...

scuse my ignorance-what is nara

strangely one of the 'true greats' for me, as far as being a pilot in the same boat as my dad is johannes steinhoff - admittedly the office politics were a bit more dangerous (books called 'last chance' and 'messerschmits over sicily' I think)-he, amongst others, upset fatty and hitler

evening all- The german beaurocracy of record keeping was exceptional-however althougth much (many records) was destroyed at the end of the war -did parts of, or indeed any, of the luftwaffe records surive? Or did they just get moved piecemeal to russia-along with everything else that could be...

apparently the guns hit him as he came over the perimeter track in bound at about 200ft in a dive-all the germans said was '8 guns'- I dont suppose that he was too popular at that point, being picked up by personnel from the base he had just straffed!!! Reading more-sorry for me you have no...

Erich- do you reckon you could find out any info on the german pilots -two (the first and third)me 109.s The first was at the taxi point, the second half way up the runway-and a third spun in, crashed and burnt out. He thought he had come upon Ju88s and was horrified to realise halfway up...

evening guys-fascinating However the airfield he was sent to attack using ash was stendal-but nothing was going down-so they turned for home, and on the way back saw aircraft taxiing in the dark with navigation lights on and hooded runway lights on--my father said this was unheard of Anyway...

They were '88's'