Thumpalumpacus
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If the story about him explaining air power to Gen Sutherland is true, I'm a fan.
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Kenney was the man for the job in the Southwest Pacific, all right. A better war General than a political General, from what I gather, but he's not alone there.
Sorry, I've gotta defend William Green. His Warplanes of the Third Reich is an all-time classic, never to be surpassed. I love his Famous Aircraft of World War II which got me interested in the subject in the first place. A pioneering effort in 1960 to start getting out the real facts out about warplanes instead of propaganda.William Greens books on WWIi aircraft. to be fair, he does have some useful information, but there are huge errors as well, and the trouble is, you just dont know when hes right and when hes wronng
Sorry, I've gotta defend William Green.
- They colorfully confuse the story of the B-17 from which LUCKY 666 takes its title, describing it as a "hulk" resembling a "rotting skeleton" "languishing in the boneyard," the origins of its "previous" name "Lucy" "lost to the mists of time," that Zeamer's crew restores to flight status. All of which would have surprised the 8th Photo Recon Squadron—which was flying 41-2666 for a month before Zeamer appropriated it in mid-May 1943 when it was returned to the 65th BS—and Zeamer, too, who named the previously unnamed Fortress "Lucy" shortly before his last flight in it, after an old girlfriend at Langley. What's especially puzzling about such mistakes—and a number of others, big and small—is that the documents needed to correct them can be found in LUCKY 666's list of sources.
I agree. They published my Our Might Always - History of the 355th FG, did a superb job quality wise but zero content editing - not that any major publisher has the kind of staff to fact check such works. Osprey also did a great job, but only corrected me once - over riding post final edit me citing the A36 as Mustang. They slipped an Apache on me in an image citation.Ah.. Schiffer publishing.
They produce a great breadth of content quality wise as they basically dont edit authors manuscripts. So if you`re lucky the authors were diligent and its great, or...
I can believe it.I agree. They published my Our Might Always - History of the 355th FG, did a superb job quality wise but zero content editing - not that any major publisher has the kind of staff to fact check such works. Osprey also did a great job, but only corrected me once - over riding post final edit me citing the A36 as Mustang. They slipped an Apache on me in an image citation.
I remember you mentioning this once before. It's still funny.I agree. They published my Our Might Always - History of the 355th FG, did a superb job quality wise but zero content editing - not that any major publisher has the kind of staff to fact check such works. Osprey also did a great job, but only corrected me once - over riding post final edit me citing the A36 as Mustang. They slipped an Apache on me in an image citation.
I hadn't heard that story. It's worth retelling, along with the rest of Kenney's bio.If the story about him explaining air power to Gen Sutherland is true, I'm a fan.
You may as well ready it from the back cover forwards, it's a case of writing the conclusions and analysis first then looking for evidence to support those conclusions to pad out the rest of the book.
What would be the trouble with black 109E njg?"Guide to German Night Fighters in World War II (Kagero/ engl.) from E.M.G. Matines"
Influenced by the advertising, I was tempted to buy this book with great excitement and anticipation. The disappointment was great for me when I leafed through the book by KAGERO (author: Martinez, Eduardo M. Gil, Softvover, 140 pages, 4 pages Wrobel color graphics). At least 90% of the images are very dark as a copy of a copy of a copy, partially out of focus or completely exaggerated retouching photos are used, although you can even find better photos on the web.
Print titles from 50 - 20 years ago are given as sources, which, according to the current state of affairs, have many errors that have apparently also been adopted.
The focus of my expectation of this guide was current information on the camouflage of the night fighter types of the German Air Force. Two pages of ramblings and nothing concrete can be found on pages 125 to 128, with large pictures. The translation of the text made me shudder at the nonsense written there. Maybe Google failed here when translating from Spanish?
I also expected to find Bf 109D/E/G pictures from the early days of night hunting for the individual fighter types. A dark photo of a Bf 109E has to serve for this . I returned the book to the seller, junk and with a lot of false statements and speculative information. My advice: stay away from this junk.
The bottom picture of the Bf-109E is said to be a night fighter, what kind of garbage is being told here?
As already mentioned - just gibberish, nothing concrete, no word on brightening, darkening, on the use of RLM76 .... nothing.
It looks like overall RLM 70/71 with RLM 65 underside. The highlights around the gun troughs is interesting.Wgat would be the trouble with black 109E njg?
eBay: Messerschmitt Bf109
Please remember that this picture was in a series and all of then including the me110 posted elsewhere were all NJG. pic below was not in that series but since we are discussing all black 109... Gildnerww2aircraft.net