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Offline Cluzig

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« Reply #15 on: February 07, 2021, 12:30:53 PM »
Gunner's Moon: A Memoir of the RAF Night Assault on Germany
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« Reply #16 on: February 07, 2021, 02:09:55 PM »
Quote from: Cluzig on February 07, 2021, 12:30:53 PM
Gunner's Moon: A Memoir of the RAF Night Assault on Germany

Ordered. I have great interest in the night assaults of the RAF. https://youtu.be/TuW1LYBYMBQ
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« Reply #17 on: February 07, 2021, 02:52:50 PM »
Quote from: Rich46yo on February 07, 2021, 02:09:55 PM
Ordered. I have great interest in the night assaults of the RAF. https://youtu.be/TuW1LYBYMBQ

Get "The Other Battle" by Peter Hinchcliffe - OBE, then (he was a Navigator on Hallifax bombers and survived being shot down while returning from his 22nd mission--he flew over a dozen more after that).  It is on par with "Shattered Sword" for its subject matter.  It tells both the RAF and Luftwaffe sides of the Night Air War from beginning to end.   

Comprehensive.  Brilliant.  Five stars.

https://www.amazon.com/Other-Battle-Luftwaffe-Command-Classics/dp/1840373032


 
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Re: Book Suggestions
« Reply #18 on: February 07, 2021, 04:27:22 PM »
A lot of good ones mentioned here.

I would also add this one THE BIG SHOW.   :cheers:


https://www.amazon.com/Big-Show-Classic-Account-Aerial-ebook/dp/B07NJ9DRCX
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« Reply #19 on: February 07, 2021, 06:21:31 PM »
Quote from: Rich46yo on February 07, 2021, 02:09:55 PM
Ordered. I have great interest in the night assaults of the RAF. https://youtu.be/TuW1LYBYMBQ

It's a good book perhaps even a great book if you are interested in bombers defensive gunners. I read it when I was a kid.

There is another book who's title escapes me that's written by a rear gunner
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« Reply #20 on: February 07, 2021, 07:02:18 PM »
I always enjoy these threads!!-
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« Reply #21 on: February 08, 2021, 04:18:59 AM »
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« Reply #22 on: February 08, 2021, 11:46:02 AM »
Quote from: Cluzig on February 07, 2021, 06:21:31 PM
It's a good book perhaps even a great book if you are interested in bombers defensive gunners. I read it when I was a kid.

There is another book who's title escapes me that's written by a rear gunner

If you like that one you’ll LOVE “The Other Battle.”
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« Reply #23 on: February 08, 2021, 06:30:04 PM »
Most of Yenne's works are worth reading. The later titles get a wee bit into the bookstore/popular history category, but still good academic works.
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Re: Book Suggestions
« Reply #24 on: February 15, 2021, 03:23:05 PM »
Quote from: Frodo on February 07, 2021, 04:27:22 PM
A lot of good ones mentioned here.
I would also add this one THE BIG SHOW.   :cheers:
https://www.amazon.com/Big-Show-Classic-Account-Aerial-ebook/dp/B07NJ9DRCX

Recently got this one free on kindle from Amazon Prime, am very much enjoying it.   :aok  Many other faves mentioned here but I'll also endorse "Shattered Sword", a lot of interesting detail about Japanese carrier ops.
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« Reply #25 on: February 16, 2021, 10:32:12 AM »
Air to Air Gunfighter by Geof "DocDoom" Evans ...if you can locate a copy

Luftwaffe Gunnery Techniques by Valkyrie Publications..also hard to find

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« Reply #26 on: February 18, 2021, 01:20:41 PM »
I was going to suggest "Shattered Sword", but I see 3 or 4 have already done so.  Seriously, it is an amazing history book, one of the best I have seen on any subject.
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« Reply #27 on: February 24, 2021, 07:48:36 AM »
I Flew for the Führer, by Heinz Knoke - a 109 pilot in combat with allied forces in the west.
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« Reply #28 on: February 24, 2021, 04:22:01 PM »
"A Thousand Shall Fall", by Murray Peden.

Local Western Canadian who flew bombers in the RAF during WW2, including Stirlings and later B17s.  Fantastic book, everyone I know who has read it highly praised it.  I have it kicking around if you want to borrow it.   He's 97 and still lives in Western Canada.

Some quotes from his Wiki page about this book -


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A Thousand Shall Fall received widespread praise. Reviewing the book in 1984, C. P. Stacey, former director of the Canadian Army Historical Section, said:

[it] is, within the limits of my knowledge, the best book any Canadian has written about his war experiences, and one of the best books about the war that has been written anywhere. […] A Thousand Shall Fall seems to me to have in it the stuff of a genuine Canadian classic. Canadians will be reading it, I hope, many years from now, when most of the 'award-winning' books of our day have passed into oblivion.[10]
In a letter to the author dated 29 November 1979, former Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris wrote:

I have just finished reading your book – in fact I found it hard to put down. I consider it not only the best and most true-to-life “war” book I’ve read about this War, but the best about all the wars of my lifetime – from the Boer War onwards. [...] at times it made me so sad that I found it hard to retain the moisture within my eyes.[11]
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« Reply #29 on: February 24, 2021, 05:25:42 PM »
“The Blond Knight of Germany” is a good one about Hartman

“Dumb but Lucky” by a p51 pilot is worth the read also

As Vraciu mentioned “Stuka Pilot” is excellent.

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