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9" X 12", 344 all color pages Standard Edition, Second Printing ISBN 0-9761034-5-1 $95.00 Deluxe edition ISBN 0-9761034-6-X $175.00 Review by Ned Barnett Review by Large Scale Planes, Mark Proulx Review by Alex Kontiveis of Helmo Exciting book on the Dora series aircraft by Jerry Crandall Volume One For information on Volume Two, click here - Foreword by Oberstleutnant a.D. Karl-Heinz Ossenkop JG 26 D-9 pilot - Brief story of prototype development - Study of the five known types of gun cowls by factory - D-9 into service with III./JG 54 - Pilot initial impressions including Dortenmann's first words..."What kind of contraptions are these?!" - First losses and victories - Excerpts of Hans Dortenmann's diary describing his all-Yellow tail 190, the first D-9 in service. - Combat stories of D-9 pilots from III./JG 54, JG 2, IV./JG 3, JG 26, JG 51 and JG 301 - The distinctive system of tactical markings and colors used by JG 301 - Approximately 365 black and white photos, plus 40 color photos may previously unpublished - 72 color profiles by Thomas A. Tullis - Situation reports of JG 2 Dora 9 activity during March 1945 attacking the Remagen bridge - Flugbuch excerpts from Dora 9 pilots - Accurate and detailed drawings by Koichiro Abe of the D-9, D-9/R5 and D-9 with the Ta 152 tail - Leather bound deluxe limited edition each autographed by nine Dora 9 pilots: Heinz Marquardt, Otto Kleinert, Paul Müngersdorff, Werner Molge, Heinz Radlauer, Karl-Heinz Ossenkop, Gerhard Frisch, Fritz Ungar and Roderich Cescotti.
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