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09-07-2012, 09:01 PM
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Best Luftwaffe Biography
This book is awesome!
 Written by Julius Meimberg, a Luftwaffe fighter ace in WWII. Meimberg joined JG 2 "Richthofen" in December 1939. Meimberg during the Battle of France flew as wingman to Hans "Assi" Hahn (108 kills). He also flew with Helmut Wick (56 kills) on the day Wick was fatally shot down over the Isle of Wight. Meimberg achieved 53 victories in 250 combat missions, all of them over the Western Front. He developed together with Egon Mayer the head-on attack as the most effective tactic against the Allied daylight heavy combat box bomber formations. Jule Meimberg passed away in January 2012 at age 95. I don't know if there is an English copy available but it's definitely a "must read" for any WWII interested reader. Here are a few pages about his time during BoB. Sorry, in German... my English is too bad to translate these pages       
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09-07-2012, 09:17 PM
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I bet it is good but I would need English v.
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09-08-2012, 06:39 AM
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The pilot whose writing impressed me the most was Johannes Steinhoff. Although it wasn't a "biography" (Straits of Messina) but I would be interested to know if
gelbevierzehn has any opinion.
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09-08-2012, 08:46 PM
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here's a translation of an excerpt from the book
http://falkeeins.blogspot.co.uk/2011...rg-memoir.html
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#5
09-08-2012, 10:13 PM
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Would love to see the hurricane fight part translated.
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09-09-2012, 11:07 AM
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Wow, just read the first few pages and can tell it is really good!
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09-10-2012, 06:41 PM
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S!
I have quite a few of the German biographies on my shelf. They are good read. Also got some Allied biographies well worth reading. Most I have been fascinated by the nightfighter biographies. Those lads sure fought the odds to the bitter end. I have one Russian biography of a IL-2 pilot, good read if you filter the inevitable "we won the war alone of course and were superior in all aspects" talk there.
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09-10-2012, 08:05 PM
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"We landed by moonlight" is another great read, those guys had massive cojones..
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