Hi all

Thanks for the invitation. I was hooked into modelling after reading a few war books when I was very young. One that impress me much at the time is this one wrote by the top WWII French Ace Pierre Clostermann. The most bizarre is, I'm originally from Brazil (now living in the beautiful city of Adelaide in South Australia), and Pierre Clostermann was born in Curitiba - Brazil. He was son of French Diplomat living in Brazil at the time. He grew up there and moved to United States to study when he was 11. One of the last interviews he gave to a Brazilian TV (in celebration of end of WWII) he did it speaking in fluent Portuguese that he learned from his childhood. Of course I have both his Spitfire MKV and the Tempest he flew in my model collection.

Cheers

Paulo

One of my favourite air books and one of the best wwii air books. I suspect Clostermann was not an easy character to get on with.

Also known as The Big Show, this is one of the best in my opinion. I found his summation very troubling because it is most likely true.

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