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Post by vs on Jun 28, 2014 16:32:00 GMT 12
Just about finished his latest book….really good! Very interesting, especially the Coastal Command stories.
I was very interested in the Kiwi connection with the U-Boat on display at the Chicago Science Museum.
Look forward to what he has planned next!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 28, 2014 18:06:20 GMT 12
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Post by errolmartyn on Jun 28, 2014 18:58:45 GMT 12
Just about finished his latest book….really good! Very interesting, especially the Coastal Command stories. I was very interested in the Kiwi connection with the U-Boat on display at the Chicago Science Museum. Look forward to what he has planned next! The Kiwi connection with U-505 was first published in 1998 in my For Your Tomorrow - A record of New Zealanders who have died while serving with the RNZAF and Allied Air Services since 1915 (Volume Fates: 1915-1942): Tue 10 Nov 1942 'Bauxite’ - anti-submarine patrol 53 Squadron, RAF (Edinburgh Field, Trinidad & Tobago, British West Indies) Hudson III V9253/L - took off at 0945 captained by Flt Sgt R R Sillcock, RAAF, and failed to return. The fate of the aircraft was not established until after the war, when German naval records revealed that it had surprised the surfaced U-505 east of Trinidad and scored a direct hit with one of four depth charges dropped in an attack. Although seriously damaging the submarine and severely injuring two of its crew, the resulting explosion also caught V9253 and sent it crashing into the sea nearby, killing its four crew and a US Navy seaman ‘passenger’. The crew are commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial. U-505 succeeded in limping back to Lorient, France, arriving on 12 December. However, in June 1944 it was captured by a US hunter-killer task group and can be viewed today as an exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. Navigator: NZ411726 Sgt Patrick George NELSON, RNZAF - Age 21. 257hrs. 42nd op. Apparently at least three books about U-505 have been published. Incidentally, much of Max's own three air war books is reliant on information first published in the For Your Tomorrow trilogy, as he generously acknowledges in each of his works. Errol |
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Post by Andy Wright on Jul 10, 2014 18:53:46 GMT 12
My copy arrived on Monday. Had a flick through last night and ended up reading large sections. Just so readable and done so very well.
The Coastal Command passages are particularly fascinating, as vs says above, perhaps because the BC and fighter detail is familiar due to Night After Night and Day After Day?
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Post by Andy Wright on Sept 30, 2014 12:54:07 GMT 12
Little 250-word review for this should be appearing in the next issue of Flightpath. Bloody good Christmas present.
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