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Thunderbolts Triumphant- The 362nd Fighter Group vs Germany's Wehrmacht
Casemate Publishers2018English
220 pg.9781612006734Review written by: Joris GonggrijpReview on book Thunderbolts Triumphant. Chris is of the age of the grandsons/-doughters of the men who flew the Thunderbolt over wartime Europa, but lucky enough to have had the opportunity to interview about twenty of the survivors of the 362nd. He also got in contact with the Arbeitsgruppe Vermissten- forschung from postwar Germany what explains […]
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The Handley Page Victor - Tales from a Crew Chief - 40 Years of Life with the Victor
Pen And Sword Books2019English
128 pg.9781526732576Review written by: Joris GonggrijpRoger Brooks’ involvement with the Victor started in 1966, three years after Cary Powers in his high flying U2 spyplane was downed by a Sovjet rocket. That resulted in “sudden death” for high flying bombers. The Victor was then converted to a tanker for in-flight refuelling. He writes on this aircraft in his book ‘The […]
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COMMANDING FAR EASTERN SKIES: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AIR SUPERIORITY CAMPAIGN IN INDIA, BURMA AND MALAYA 1941–1945
Helion and Company2018English
320 pg.ISBN-10: 1910294446 ISBN-13: 978-1910294444Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp‘Ten there was this book ‘COMMANDING FAR EASTERN SKIES’! The RAF-campaign for air supremacy above the border between India and Burma and unrolling eastward after that, is the topic of this study. Across the Indian border this succeeded, from September 1943 onwards, after the deploy of Spitfires The eastward –above Burma and later Malakka- unrolling […]
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Check Six! A Thunderbolt Pilot's War Across the Pacific
Casemate Publishers2015English
352 pg.9781612002996Review written by: Max HeldringReview on Check Six! James Curran flew the P-47 Thunderbolt also nicknamed the Jug in the Pacific theatre. In 293 pages he documented his personal experiences as pilot of this famous and feared fighter bomber that played an important role in the air war over the Pacific. There was no heroic and luxury existence for […]
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AFRICA@WAR 33: SHOWDOWN IN WESTERN SAHARA VOLUME 1. AIR WARFARE OVER THE LAST AFRICAN COLONY, 1945-1975
Helion and Company2018English
72 pg.9781912390359Review written by: Joris GonggrijpThe title of this book(let) doesn’t cover the content: in a very clarifying manner the geopolitical developments in the western part of the Sahara are stated, from the pre-historical time! At the end of the 15th century begins ‘our’’ Western interference with this area. Ending in the colonisation by Spain and France from 1830 onwards. […]
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Southern Thunder
Seaforth Publishing2019English
304 pg.9781526726636Review written by: Joris GonggrijpSorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.
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The English Electric Lightning- Rare photographs from wartime archives
Pen & Sword Books2019English
144 pg.9781526705563Review written by: Max Heldring231st Review The English Electric Lightning- Rare photographs from wartime archives- Martin W. Bowman The Lightning was an icon of the RAF during the years of the cold war. I wrote already several reviews about this remarkable plane that in terms of performance was ahead of his time. This is a photo book and therefore […]
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The BULGARIAN AIR FORCE in the Second World War
Helion & Company Ltd.2018English
136 pg.978-1-912390-64-9Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp230th Review The BULGARIAN AIR FORCE in the Second World War-Alexander Mladenov, Evgeni Andonov and Krassimir Grozev This book tells the story of a country on the Balkan (Bulgaria) which in WO II could not do much else than to stay out of the way of the Wehrmacht and later the Red Army. In the […]
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AERIAL OPERATIONS IN THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1922 AND 1947 IN PARAGUAY. THE FIRST DOGFIGHTS IN SOUTH AMERICA
Helion & Compagny Publishing2018English
48 pg.9781912390588Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp229th Review: LATIN AMERICA@WAR 8: AERIAL OPERATIONS IN THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1922 AND 1947 IN PARAGUAY. THE FIRST DOGFIGHTS IN SOUTH AMERICA- Antoinio Luis Sapienza This pamphlet of 40 pages contains a nice collection colour prints of the planes that between 1922 en 1947 in Paraguay chose heaven. The historiography of this period is known […]
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MEXICANS AT WAR. MEXICAN MILITARY AVIATION IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1941-1945
Helion & Company Publishing2018English
232 pg.978-1-9122390-06-9Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp228th Review MEXICANS AT WAR. MEXICAN MILITARY AVIATION IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1941-1945- Santiago A. Flores Otherwise than the title suggests, does this book not only set out the warfare in WO II but also the revolutions that swept across Mexico during 1910 till 1941. Even the by us known revolutionary ‘figureheads’ like Pancho […]