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9" X 12", 344 all color pages Standard Edition ISBN 0-9761034-5-1 $85.00 Deluxe edition ISBN 0-9761034-6-X $175.00 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markings and colors used by JG 301 - Approximately 365 black and white photos, plus 40 color photos may previously unpublished - 72 color profiles by Thomas A. Tullis - Situation reports of JG 2 Dora 9 activity during March 1945 attacking the Remagen bridge - Flugbuch excerpts from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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