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Title: Late Christmas present for the 80th FS guys
Post by: Baumer on January 04, 2011, 09:44:01 AM

I was able to spend some time with William Wolf over the holidays and he showed me his 1200 page history of the 5th Fighter Command that will be published later this year! It will be a 3 volume set with plenty of great info and photographs be sure to watch for it from http://www.schifferbooks.com (http://www.schifferbooks.com) .

As an aside I helped him with some stuff and he was gracious enough to share his mission and combat reports. I have over a thousand pages of action reports for the 80th Fighter Squadron so you'll have plenty of reading in the near future. Here are a few examples;

(http://332nd.org/dogs/baumer/BBS%20Stuff/5thFC/80thCombatReport.jpg) 

This one is from 42

(http://332nd.org/dogs/baumer/BBS%20Stuff/5thFC/80thMissionFirst.jpg)

<S> and Happy New Year

Title: Re: Late Christmas present for the 80th FS guys
Post by: Soulyss on January 04, 2011, 10:02:57 AM

Thanks! I'll have to keep an eye out for the book as well.  :D

Title: Re: Late Christmas present for the 80th FS guys
Post by: SunBat on January 04, 2011, 10:32:31 AM

20K?  Alt monekys.   :neener:

Not only that, but that was obviously a Candy Mountain Mission of D3's that you guys messed up.  Poor sportsmanship.  Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.  :D

Title: Re: Late Christmas present for the 80th FS guys
Post by: Soulyss on January 04, 2011, 10:37:07 AM

 :lol

Title: Re: Late Christmas present for the 80th FS guys
Post by: mensa180 on January 04, 2011, 11:37:36 AM

Great stuff Baumer!  POST MORE!

Title: Re: Late Christmas present for the 80th FS guys
Post by: Shuffler on January 04, 2011, 11:43:14 AM

Oh wow.... I'll be watching for these.

Thanks for posting!!

Title: Re: Late Christmas present for the 80th FS guys
Post by: cactuskooler on January 04, 2011, 12:59:02 PM

Thanks! Any chance we can learn the name of the book?

Title: Re: Late Christmas present for the 80th FS guys
Post by: Raptor on January 04, 2011, 01:03:18 PM

I was expecting to see "to reveal a US star" when one aircraft winged over.

Title: Re: Late Christmas present for the 80th FS guys
Post by: Baumer on January 04, 2011, 01:08:36 PM

Thanks! I am glad you like it. This is an example of how I'm trying to get all the information organized.

11 April 1943
80th Fighter Squadron- Mission No.19 (this is the squads 19th mission after converting to the P-38)
Alert Intercept to Oro Bay
4 P-38's
Links to complete mission report and all individual combat reports for this mission below.

Squadron Mission Report page 1 (http://332nd.org/dogs/baumer/5thFC/8thFG/80thFS/11apr43/MR11apr43pg1.jpg)
Squadron Mission Report page 2 (http://332nd.org/dogs/baumer/5thFC/8thFG/80thFS/11apr43/MR11apr43pg2.jpg)

Individual Combat Report of Capt. Daniel Roberts (pg1) (http://332nd.org/dogs/baumer/5thFC/8thFG/80thFS/11apr43/ICR11apr43pg4.jpg)
Individual Combat Report of Capt. Daniel Roberts (pg2) (http://332nd.org/dogs/baumer/5thFC/8thFG/80thFS/11apr43/ICR11apr43pg5.jpg)
Individual Combat Report of 1st Lt. Leonidas Mathers (http://332nd.org/dogs/baumer/5thFC/8thFG/80thFS/11apr43/ICR11apr43pg3.jpg)
Individual Combat Report of 2nd Lt. Derick Hartmann (http://332nd.org/dogs/baumer/5thFC/8thFG/80thFS/11apr43/ICR11apr43pg1.jpg)
Individual Combat Report of 2nd Lt. Glenn Hope (http://332nd.org/dogs/baumer/5thFC/8thFG/80thFS/11apr43/ICR11apr43pg2.jpg)

Title: Re: Late Christmas present for the 80th FS guys
Post by: Baumer on January 04, 2011, 01:10:34 PM

Quote from: cactuskooler on January 04, 2011, 12:59:02 PM

Thanks! Any chance we can learn the name of the book?

He hasn't come up with a name for the book yet. I'll post it when it's finalized which should be later this month.

Title: Re: Late Christmas present for the 80th FS guys
Post by: mensa180 on January 04, 2011, 01:13:03 PM

If someone had the time it'd be great to take all these AARs and organize them on a website for everyone to browse.

Title: Re: Late Christmas present for the 80th FS guys
Post by: Baumer on January 04, 2011, 01:21:45 PM

Eventually that's my plan but it's going to take some time to get organized. I have over eight thousand pages for the 5th AF Fighter Command so it's going to be a big task.

Title: Re: Late Christmas present for the 80th FS guys
Post by: Guppy35 on January 04, 2011, 01:54:19 PM

Ahh the great Danny Roberts, leading "Ping Pong" flight of the 80th.  Gotta remember that one :)

Thanks Baumer!