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A companion of a Piece of Cake is the trilogy of the 105 weasel guys out of Thailand during Viet nam by Tom Wilson named :"Winged Victory" by Victor Yeats
"Things they Carried" by Tim O'Brien
"Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific" by Eric Bergund
"Piece of Cake" by Derek Robinson (Also it's successor, "A good clean fight")
"Goodbye Darkness" by William Manchester
"With the Old Breed" by E. B. Sledge
"The Last Enemy" by Richard Hillary
It's a start. Some are fiction, some are non-fiction. All are good.
One thing I have been hoping to see here is some exchanges on books
and reference materials recommended by the group. There are some pricey
items out there, and I can't afford to plow money into books that don't offer
value, or are at least good reading material. So, here are some from my
small shelf that I really like and can recommend to anyone who loves WW2
aircraft and related hardware and stories of aerial exploits. I would love to know what
everyone else recommends, and maybe a review or two...
British Aircraft Armament, Vol 2, RAF Guns and Gunsights, 1994,
by R. wallace Clarke; Japanese Aircraft Equipment, 1940-45, 2004, by
Robert C. Mikesh; Retsoring Museum Aircraft, 1997, also by Robert Mikesh; The Focke-Wulf 190, A Famous German Fighter, 1965, by Heinz Nowarra; Samurai!, by Saburo Sakai and Martin Caidin, 1957 (love it!); Warpath Across the Pacific, by Lawrence j. Hickey, 1984;
Attack and Conquer, the 8th Fighter Group in WW2, 1995, by Stanaway and Hickey; Allied Piston Aircraft Engines of WW2, by Graham White, 1995; and the first warbird book I ever bought, back in 1972, and
still very useful: Warplanes of the Third Reich, by William Green.
My two most recent additions come from the Czech republic, REVI Publications, by Martin Ferkl: the Mitsubishi G4M Betty, and the Mitsubishi Ki-46 Dinah. These are two very impressive soft cover books with terrific graphics that will be important to anyone who wants to model these birds.
A companion of a Piece of Cake is the trilogy of the 105 weasel guys out of Thailand during Viet nam by Tom Wilson named :
Termite Hill
Luckys Bridge
Tango Uniform
and this is also an entertaining read
Terror In the Starboard Seat by a 418 sqn intruder navigator Dave Macintyre
Thanks Chris!
I have two other very fine books that I can recommend, but you Luftwaffe
experts will need to tell me if they indeed warrant prominence on the shelf:
JG 300 Wilde Sau Vol. 1 from Eagle Editions, and Willi Reshke's JG300/301.