f4phan wrote:
Pete Davies & Don McCarthy's Mig Killer titles and Tony Thornbourough's Phantom Story all have the jet in question as 68-0338 ..
I probably have it in some offical publication somewhere as well will just take some looking to find it ...
Also 67-0338 as seen in this thread was assigned to the 421st TFS for all of 72 till at least summer 73 ... It was still serving at Taklhi in Sept 72 not arriving at Udorn till Oct when the 4th and 421st relocated there ...
Good 'nuff for me. I'll pencil in
68-338 in Frank's book for the jet's "second" victory in September.
f4phan wrote:
Also I am not familier with Olynyk ..
Heh heh ... allow me to digress. Unfortunately, you're not alone. Frank Olynyk is only the world's leading authority on aerial victory claims vs.
documentation to back them up. He took USAF's Historical Study 85, for example, to a whole new level, changing, in some cases the final tally - sometimes
adding credits. His exhaustive studies on US aces' aerial claims from all wars has been accepted by the
American Fighter Aces Association as "the last word" on the subject.
Frank's groundbreaking book,
Stars and Bars is a must-have for those at all interested in the subject. I recommend searches on Bookfinder.com and Abebooks.com and Amazon.com before making your purchase ... it's out of print and VERY expensive - you might score a deal somewhere.
Some, including some very well-informed types, think
Stars and Bars is all Frank did ... well, not quite:
In addition, Frank compiled
ten softcover books covering
ALL aerial claims for US pilots in all wars, divided by region, such as "ETO WWII". He even included 400 and 600 Squadron (IIRC - I may have the squadron series numbers wrong) series RAF claims books, covering all commonwealth and occupied country RAF pilot victory claims, I almost didn't get the two RAF books when I was actively hunting Frank's books down, but I was surprised to find they included "extras", like all 71, 121 and 133 Eagle Squadron claims.
I have 8 of these 10 softcover books, I only lack the USN WWII and USAAF Mediterrean volumes. I've tried every search engine known to man to find those two, but they are completely unavailable, except for his US Post-WWII credits (Korea, Vietnam, GWI, etc). As recently as a few months ago, a search on eBay found his first book on USMC WWII Credits on auctin with about an hour to go! Knowing that I
WOULD be the winner, I put an obscenely high price as my max bid, and came away with it for a little over $100. Ewww - I know I pissed a guy off on that one!
I have been in contact with Frank, and he tells me that his publisher switched formats on him, and he is looking at re-issuing all his softcovers in PDF format. I encouraged him to do this, and even offered to retail them for him on my site - didn't hear back from him on that last request, unfortunately.
However, hopefully Frank will indeed reissue his volumes.
Wade
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