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Pacific Historian
This is the history of the 3rd and 27th bomb Groups from prewar to Dec 1942.
From the folks at International Historical Research Associates.
From the folks at International Historical Research Associates.
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Do you have any others from them?Mine arrived Tuesday. Yummy!
I have all of them too. Unfortunately, Mr. Hickey died a few months back. Hopefully his coauthors will continue on with his work.I've got them all. Warpath across the Pacific (245th BG), Revenge of the Red Raiders (22nd BG), Ken's Men (43rd BG) V1 & 2, and now this. Not counting the Special Edition Sunsetters (38th BG) book. That was a limited run just for the 38th BG association. I'm hoping they will release the two-part series planned for the general public after V2 of Grim Reapers is released.
Apparently Red Raiders is out of print and they do not have the publishing rights any more. Amazon has copies going for $250.
My understanding is that the 22nd BG Association sued Hickey and IHRA years ago over the decades-long delay in producing the Red Raiders history, to the effect that after Hickey's death, the copyright for Red Raiders passed to the 22nd BG Association. I saw that they're going to be selling them for around $30, but I don't know how or when, or even if, they're having new printing done. It's an amazing price, but the book is easily worth twice that for the amount of work it represents.I've got them all. Warpath across the Pacific (245th BG), Revenge of the Red Raiders (22nd BG), Ken's Men (43rd BG) V1 & 2, and now this. Not counting the Special Edition Sunsetters (38th BG) book. That was a limited run just for the 38th BG association. I'm hoping they will release the two-part series planned for the general public after V2 of Grim Reapers is released.
Apparently Red Raiders is out of print and they do not have the publishing rights any more. Amazon has copies going for $250.
My understanding is that the 22nd BG Association sued Hickey and IHRA years ago over the decades-long delay in producing the Red Raiders history, to the effect that after Hickey's death, the copyright for Red Raiders passed to the 22nd BG Association. I saw that they're going to be selling them for around $30, but I don't know how or when, or even if, they're having new printing done. It's an amazing price, but the book is easily worth twice that for the amount of work it represents.
I can certainly understand the families' frustration at having their memorabilia kept for 15-20 years while enduring multiple delays in publication dates, while the group members themselves were passing away without a book. But based on my own experience researching and writing about a single crew from the same theater off and on over the past 30 years, I can completely understand Hickey's position, which was needing to gather as much information as he could across multiple bomb groups while the men were still alive, and then having to organize, compile, distill, and finally write and edit the books themselves. Anyone who owns any of their histories can see what an awesome, daunting task they had before them, and how magnificent a job they ended up doing with them. They're incomparable.