On the recieving end of a Sturmovik

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Good story Gilgenbach

If this is a literary thread then I would like to write a couple of lines on the book I am reading for the 3rd time now. This book was actually bought by my grandma in 1949 and she gave it to me as she knows I am a big fan of WWII aircrafts.

Its title in french is "Le grand cirque" which can be translated in "the big show" in english.

This book has been written by Pierre Clostermann who was a french pilot in the R.A.F between 1942 and 1945. He flew all his missions on different versions of the spitfire.

So this book is all about his memories on some of the missions and big shows he took part in.
This is really fascinating to read how this Sgt. described every details of his dogfights against the german 190 and 109 in the skies of France and Great Britain. He also describes the advantages a spitfire could have over a FW190 or a BF109 and vice versa.

Anyway if you are lucky enough to read it then you will learn a lot on the life of the british WWII pilots, on the differents specs of the spitfire, on the different type of missions and their briefings,on their radio communication... etc..etc...

I can only incite you to read it... this is just fascinating.

See you,