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Get my book Anti-Partisan Warfare in Europe. regarding Yugoslavia, I knew Milovan Djilas, and France, Pierre Deshayes and Aaaron Bank. Look those guys up.
Warfighting: US Marine Corps Manual
Two of my friends/interviews were involved in PQ-17. One, a pilot Hajo Herrmann finished the war as a bomber pilot with 70,000 tons of shipping sunk, most transports on the Murmansk and Archangel runs, and 9 kills as a night fighter pilot.
Anne and I liked the film also.
My old and late friend Pieter Krueler, the subject of the book (his biography) Four War Boer met Churchill, and they liked each other.
I met Gen Bradley when I was in high school, he was my first ever interview, which started it all. Very interesting man, although at that time he was very frail and quite ill.
Dimitri wrote: "So I spot amidst the bookcase decorations in the window of a furniture shop.. Battleship Bismarck: A Survivor's Story ....ask politely whether they also sell the books, and take it h..."I knew and interviewed Baron Rechberg, good man.
Paul wrote: "KOMET wrote: "Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor by James M. Scott[bookcover:Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Aven..."
Doolittle told me personally, that he offered a plan to FDR, and the president said "let me see it". Doolittle personally chose the aircraft, the method and even recruited the pilots and crews. My wife Anne and I knew all of them, and we have the stories first hand. Doolittle was given the authority, but how he did it was up to him and the Navy.
Manray9 wrote: "I have a continuing interest in odd aircraft -- flying boats, pushers, dirigibles, etc. While thumbing through Jon Guttman's --
Pusher Aces of World..."Jon Guttman has been a good friend and colleague for over two decades, and I took him to the Luftwaffe Fighter Pilots' reunion in 1999.
Geevee wrote: "Yes indeed. I am reminded of Cyprus and our UN peacekeeping missions in that divided land."I was living in Nicosia, Cyprus from 1972-75 during the Makarious-Grievas civil war and then the Turkish invasion. Interesting times.
Will do.
We are writing another "Aces Speak" type book, from interviews, but this time with Americans. Included are Curtis Lemay, Doolittle, Robert S. Johnson, Francis S. Gabreski, etcand others. Look for a 2016 release.
True.
May I suggest RAF fighter ace Robert Stanford Tuck's "Fly for Your Life" covering his life and escape from German POW camp. I knew Tuck, he was ironically also the godfather to Adolf Galland's son Andreas.
Howard wrote: "Someone previously mentioned that the Vaslov army was not well supported and dismissed its significance. Many Wehrmacht units were not well supported in Russia to say the least, especially compared..."Read my two books; "German Anti-Partisan Warfare" (great interviews with partcipants regarding Soviet defectors, and great details on Vlasov and Bunyachenko, some comments from SS Gens. Karl Wolff, Leon Degrelle, Otto Kumm, Wilhelm Bittrich, etc.
The other book is "Occupation and Insurgency", with specifics on the Eastern Front from the participants on both sides as well.
Read "Tigers in the Mud", by the late great Otto Carius on German tanks firsthand.
My wife and I knew them all, she was their photographer, and I had interviewed all the Raiders, starting with Jimmy Doolittle, my first ever interview.
read my book Occupation and Insurgency on the interviews I did with Soviet partisans and SS leaders on the Eastern Front.
carl wrote: "Walter Schuck, the lives some people have led ! https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-..."
I knew both Walter and Joe, who is still alive, as is Kurt Schulze in the center of photo. Kurt flew wingman for Schuck in JG-5, and he is also a great friend. See my website where I have all three men posted, with Walter and Joe signing the bookplates for our limited edition book The Me-262 Stormbird, with other German and American pilots.
