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An emblem that was first used in WW1, and I believe still used on fighters today. Just dropped in to a farmer's garden on 4th September 1940 at Cousley Wood.

The research was something I started in 1980, never thinking it would get anywhere... But as it progressed, I was over to Germany interviewing veterans every year. You'll love this photo of me with Joachim Koepsell (shot down into captivity over the west country on 27 September 1940) taken in...

There can only be one: Casablanca. With Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Gocart! As well as the rest of the cast of greats!

I have written/co-written 9 books of various types on the Messerschmitt 110. This is the second time that one has gone to a second edition. Here's the covers of the others: And this is the first edition (1995) of the one to be published in a couple of weeks time:

Hess's flight was May 1941. This book covers only 1940.

1. I don't think so. 2. A German edition would be up to the publisher. 3. I leave sales figures to the publishers. The above comments are not intended to be flippant. I just pass the completed work(s) to the publisher, and do a final proof-read when the .pdfs come through to me. Then it's...

@Rita_Poon You gave a 'wow' to my accont of the attack on Manston on 14th August 1940. Of the two crews shot down, only one survived, Ewald Schank. I tracked him down in the 1980s, and he very kindly gave me this account of his being shot down: “At 7 o’clock on 14.8.40 we left our airfield...

On a serious note, this is the account I received from Sgt Townshend of 600 Squadron who was based at Manston during the Battle of Britain: This is the attack on Manston airfield on 14th August 1940: “Once again we were blessed with good weather. With the bombing of two days previous the...

Thanks. T'is a long slog. Been doing the research for 45 years. This is the second second-edition of the nine books I have written/co-written on the Messerschmitt 110...

Publisher announced it today. Here's the link to their website: https://wingleader.co.uk/books/zerstorer/ And the publicity blurb if you do not want to click on the link:

Frank Darcy & Gerry Glover both from St. Johns school, Kirkdale.

I was somewhere central in the main stand in the opposite end. Luton battered us for 85 minutes, then...

You know that THIS is a virtuoso guitar player when Tommy Emmanuel is shaking his head in admiration...

The whole scenario appears to be out of 'The Producers' & 'Springtime for Hitler'. Rinse the investors and then try to sod off...

Plattdeutsch, squire, plattdeutsch!