Hello I agree with Erich on Ospreys written by Weal, even if I like his LW fighter aces books, in those there are nice pieces of LW pilots' memoirs but as factual history books, no. On the other hand some Ospreys are good, some bad and some between. It's entirely question on author's skills. And those reprinted USAAF studies like Long Reach and Twelve to One are gems, IMHO.
On the other hand Boehme's JG 7 book seems to be well researched unit history, same to Radtke's KG 54 book. Haven't see Forsyth's JV 44 books.
Soren
IMHO Price 100 air combat Me 262 losses were not far of mark. Kommando Nowotny lost appr. 6 in air combat, on 25th Feb II./KG(J) 54 lost 6 in air combat and on10th Apr JG 7 and I./KG(J) 54 lost 31 out of 76 participated. I took the losses from Price's newest article in International Air Power Review Vol. 23 because I don't have time to check my copy of Radtke's book but Boehme gives JG 7 losses on that day as 13 lost and 14 missing a/c. So the Kommando Nowotny's air to air losses and the air to air losses of the IIRC two worst days of Me 262 fighter units already sum up as 43 air to air losses. So 100 air to air losses seems entirely possible.
KK
that Brewster kill ratio is accepted claims vs real losses. I have never bothered to count the real one but because the claims incl. the 42-43 air combats over Bay of Finland during which in the light of our current knowledge there seems to be combats were Finns overclaimed badly, even if generally Finns were not notorious overclaimers, I would say that real kill ratio of FAF B-239s was somewhere between 16:1 to 9:1, just an educated guess.
Juha
On the other hand Boehme's JG 7 book seems to be well researched unit history, same to Radtke's KG 54 book. Haven't see Forsyth's JV 44 books.
Soren
IMHO Price 100 air combat Me 262 losses were not far of mark. Kommando Nowotny lost appr. 6 in air combat, on 25th Feb II./KG(J) 54 lost 6 in air combat and on10th Apr JG 7 and I./KG(J) 54 lost 31 out of 76 participated. I took the losses from Price's newest article in International Air Power Review Vol. 23 because I don't have time to check my copy of Radtke's book but Boehme gives JG 7 losses on that day as 13 lost and 14 missing a/c. So the Kommando Nowotny's air to air losses and the air to air losses of the IIRC two worst days of Me 262 fighter units already sum up as 43 air to air losses. So 100 air to air losses seems entirely possible.
KK
that Brewster kill ratio is accepted claims vs real losses. I have never bothered to count the real one but because the claims incl. the 42-43 air combats over Bay of Finland during which in the light of our current knowledge there seems to be combats were Finns overclaimed badly, even if generally Finns were not notorious overclaimers, I would say that real kill ratio of FAF B-239s was somewhere between 16:1 to 9:1, just an educated guess.
Juha