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Todd Hunter
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Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 03:45 pm:   Edit PostPrint Post
(or for anyone else interested)

http://www.78thfightergroup.com/history/targetofopphewitt.html

I had the pleasure of meeting Lt. Col. Hewitt at an Air Force Association meeting this past week. He self-published his book about life as a WWII fighter pilot. I just finished the preface, and I have a feeling that the book is going to be just as good as his presentation over the weekend was.
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Matt Dinniman
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Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 10:30 pm:   Edit PostPrint Post
Cool!

The book WW2 Aviation book I was working on was recently put out there as well. He's already sold about 200 copies at the museum he and my wife work at.

http://www.390th.org/ <--- museum

http://books.lulu.com/content/218454 <--- book

I still need to make a website for it.
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Posted on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 03:03 pm:   Edit PostPrint Post
These would be those niche markets that everyone discusses in when and where to self-publish.

Col. Hewitt had over 400 combat hours and flew 144 missions over Europe...he had some amazing stories to tell (and was quite good at telling them).
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Dennis Collins
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Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 04:48 am:   Edit PostPrint Post
It would be interesting if the author wrote a comparison between the P47 and the P51.

I've heard pilots describe the Mustang as a sports car compared to the Thunderbolt being a souped up Mack truck.

I remember seeing an amazing piece of film taken at a British airfield during WWII where a P47 is coming in for a landing when a B17 with two engines gone and it's rudder all but shot off suddenly appears headed for an intersecting runway. The bomber had no radio and a couple of mortally wounded crew members. The guy in the control tower fires a flare at the fighter plane and he pulls up but is too late to avoid running into an oak tree next to the runway. You can see the P47 disappear into the tree branches and the you see leaves and limbs flying everywhere and the P47 emerges from the other side of the tree and circles for another landing attempt.

My kind of airplane... (Wonder if they were made by Harley-Davidson?)
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