Interviews with war pilots

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World War 2

Finnish Air Force
Jarl Arnkil
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/en/hist/WW2History-LahtelaEnglish.html#kille

Mauno Fräntilä
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/en/hist/WW2History-MaunoFrantila2English.html

Jaakko Hillo
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/en/hist/WW2History-LahtelaEnglish.html#hillo

Kyösti Karhila
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/en/hist/WW2History-KyostiKarhilaEnglish.html

Kullervo Lahtela
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/en/hist/WW2History-LahtelaEnglish.html

Viljo Lehtinen
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/en/hist/WW2History-ViljoLehtinenEnglish.html

Martti Lehtovaara
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/en/hist/WW2History-MarttiLehtovaaraEnglish.html

Antti Tani and Jussi Huotari
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/en/hist/WW2History-TaniHuotariEnglish.html

Hans E. Wind
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/en/hist/WW2History-HansWindVideoEnglish.html
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/hist/WW2History-CaptainWindsAirCombatTacticsLecture.html


IJAF&IJNAF
Zenji Abe
http://www.thehistorynet.com/wwii/bljapanesepilotremembers/index.html

Sadamu Komaki
http://www.warbirdforum.com/komachi.htm
http://www.rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp/radar-group/members/gernot/komachi.html
http://www.rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp/radar-group/members/gernot/komachi2.html


LUFTWAFFE & partners
Ioan Dobran (Romanian)
http://www.worldwar2.ro/arr/?article=432

Adolf Galland
http://www.tarrif.net/wwii/interviews/adolf_galland.htm
http://home.tiscali.be/ed.ragas/awshistory/awsgalland.html

Luigi Gorrini (Italian)
http://phoneywar.cetanu.net/index.php?phoneyfile=gorrini

Dieter Hrabak
http://www.tarrif.net/wwii/interviews/dieter_hrabak.htm

Walter Krupinski
http://www.thehistorynet.com/mh/blKrupinski/index.html
http://www.tarrif.net/wwii/interviews/walter_krupinksi.htm

Ioan Marinciu (Romanian)
http://www.worldwar2.ro/arr/?article=438

Hermann Neumann
http://www.tarrif.net/wwii/interviews/hermann_neumann.htm

Gunther Rall
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/hist/WW2History-GuntherRallEnglish.html

Jan Reznak (Slovak)
http://www.kurita.sk/PRIVATE/Html/reznak.htm

Lothar Seifert
http://www.tarrif.net/wwii/interviews/lothar_seifert.htm

Johannes Steinhoff
http://www.tarrif.net/wwii/interviews/johannes_steinhoff.htm



RAF
Douglas Bader
http://home.tiscali.be/ed.ragas/awshistory/awsbader.html

Harry Hardy
http://www.tarrif.net/wwii/interviews/harry_hardy.htm

Frantisek Perina (Czech)
http://www.thehistorynet.com/mh/blfperina/index.html

Robert Stanford-Tuck
http://home.tiscali.be/ed.ragas/awshistory/awstuck.html

Allan Richard Wright
http://www.tarrif.net/wwii/interviews/allan_richard_wright.htm



USAAF
Jack Adams
http://www.tarrif.net/wwii/interviews/jack_adams.htm

William Blystone
http://www.cebudanderson.com/blystoneinterview.htm

Gregory Boyington
http://www.tarrif.net/wwii/interviews/gregory_boyington.htm

Russell Chandler Jr.
http://www.thehistorynet.com/ahi/blc47pilot/index.html

Francis S. Gabreski
http://home.tiscali.be/ed.ragas/awshistory/awsgabreski.html

James H. Macia
http://www.thehistorynet.com/mh/bl-james-macia/index.html

Milford A. Merrill
http://www.tarrif.net/wwii/interviews/milford_merrill.htm

William R. O'Brien
http://www.cebudanderson.com/obeeinterview.htm

Hoyt Parmer (armorer)
http://www.cebudanderson.com/interviewparmer.htm

Bruce Porter
http://www.chez.com/warbirds/porter.html

Chuck Yeager
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/yea0int-1



VVS
Nikolay Gerasimovitch Golodnikov
http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/golodnikov/index.htm

Ivan Kozhedub
http://www.thehistorynet.com/ahi/bl-ivan-kozhedub/index.html



Korean War

USAAF
Frederick C. 'Boots' Blesse
http://www.acepilots.com/korea_blesse.html

 

Now don't take this the wrong way. Cause it ain't meant to offend ye:

The woman in the avatar picture, she looks like what I consider the perfect sixteen year old.
Maybe she is forty, I dunno. anyway, she looks like a woods elf or somethin.

Oh, and so this won't be O.T:

Takin look at what Galland had to say right now.

[wtf happenned to the avatar picture? Did I dream it? There is somethin different there now. She don't look much like a 16 year old woods elf....]

 

fatale likes to change avatars there's nothing wrong with you well at least there's nothing NEW wrong with you

 

Thank you for the links fatale.

I love this kind of stuff.

 

And btw, completely agree with biles.

You should have made the role of Arwen at The Lord of the Rings.

 

Nice fatale, cheers

There arent enough stories on the Net of Japanese fighter pilots exploits. If anyone has more links to their stories, pass them around please

Ive searched for ages in bookshops for 'Samurai' but not having any luck

 

great links indeed fatale!

 

Samurai by Saburo Sakai? I have this book, quite good

 

Odd, I see this book all over the place. Saw a copy of $1 just yesterday.
Here is one fairly cheap.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/of...n3_xgl14_a//103-7176166-2779848?condition=all
The only other book I've found by a Japanese pilot is I was a Kamikaze
Not bad, the author failed as a kamikaze (couldn't find the enemy due to weather) but did attack B-29s in a Ki-27, so it turns out he is quite brave (or stupid, or whatever it takes to do those things). Now you dont have to read the book.

 

Cheers Roland, I'll have a look at the UK Amazon website to see if it is available again. Its impossible to buy from a bookshop over here.

Having said that, I just done a search on Sakai on the Net and found that the book is actually not all it's cracked up to be. There are apparently some bad errors, and it was not written by Sakai, but by a guy called Martin Caidin who used third-hand accounts (someone interviewed Sakai, and Caidin then interviewed them....). The number of 64 aircraft supposedly shot down by Sakai is a gross exaggeration by Martin Caidin - Sakai apparently had never said how many he actually shot down. More recent reviews have put the figure at nearer 30.

The best story I heard about Sakai though was the one where there was a plane (C47 maybe) carrying child refugees low over the jungle, when it was jumped by Sakai. The nurse onboard said all the children were at the windows of the plane, screaming frantically at the Zero pilot not to harm them. Sakai seen the children and, despite being under orders to down all enemy aircraft, he simply waved his wings at them then flew off. The nurse in question actually got to meet and thank Sakai after the war. Nice story imo

 

It is tough to find the perfect book.
A lot of pilot's autobiographies are written with the aid of a professional writer.
Diaries are the best. I'm about halfway through one now by a RAF S/L from the Battle of Britain. It is late August 1940 (yes, 1st month of RPS & he already has a streak, but he flies off full fuel ever time anyway) & he is will 11 group, but he doesnt know it is the Battle of Britain, he just knows he is a bit busier the same time last month.

 

great DM

 

Not everything you read is true.
Pilots are well known bullshitters.
Of course US planes were generally built quite tough so maybe this is not the case here...history is quite inscrutable, in this case because some pilots wanted to get laid more than deliver accurate intelligence info

 

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Looking for Samurai book!... Go for 1200 pages of
SHOGUN from James Calvel.
I was really enjoying reading each paragraph of this book.
If I have to give mark from 1 to 10 I will give 100.

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Also Most of the "Toshiro Mifune's" movies done by Akiro Kurosava are about Samurais.
Go and look at 'em. If you really like Samurais you will really have good time.

pos scriptum.
Only for those that didn't relize by now my avatar is actualy "Toshiro Mifune" from one of his movies about Samurais.

 

Yojimbo I think.

 

Thnx for links posted

 

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a).we stick this thread, and people don't goof here.
b).we go laisser faires (but i bookmark this thread myself).
fatale (you as a thread starter), what will you say?

 

a) is imho better...only links and no texts...