Books on ARR

Can someone who has those stories from Avion scan them please ?

"Aripi In Furtuna" - Anton Marin, Editura Militara 1979

It's about post 23rd August 1944 ARR actions. This book fits the commie propaganda standard of it's time, being written by a former WW2 "active" witness : coll. ® eng. Anton Marin.

It includes scenes mentioned by other books (such as Dan Stoian's - "Pumnul Tarii"); a nice (and well known) episode describes how Mr. Cujba repaired one damaged B-17 using acacia wood (rom. 'salcim').

Best Regards,
Electric

Thank you Electric - do you have that book and is it worth reading ? For some reason I am unable to read more then 3 pages of a pre 89 book on ARR.

We must been twin brothers

I read "Aripi in furtuna" long time ago.
Why "This book fits the commie propaganda standard of its time", from your point of view?

Anton Marin wrote also a book about Romanian inventions and priorities during the early history of aviation. Quite an interesting book, even though sometimes he exaggerated our merits by neglecting to mention some foreign achievements in the same fields.

This post has been edited by Florin on December 24, 2004 07:47 am

D13_th-Mytzu, yes I do have it; I think that all the books have to be read, in order for one to get a broader picture of the general and particular opinions.

Florin, my belief is that the books written before the Romanian '89 events must be read with the proper reserve...

Best regards,
electric.

This post has been edited by electric on December 26, 2004 02:38 pm

Bună!

Florin, the book you mentioned, written by Anton Marin, sounds interesting, even if it must eventually be read with a certain degree of precaution, as Electric has pointed out... Do you remember if the work of Eng. Ion Stroescu is mentioned by the author?

By the way, I think one book is missing from the general list:

"Seaplanes over the Black Sea: German-Romanian operations 1941-1944", by Cristian Craciunoiu and Jean-Louis Roba; Bucharest, Editura Modelism, 1995. ISBN 973-97497-2-0

Ruy

Anyone read "Sfarleaza cu fofeaza" ? Ok is not with ARR, but was the first book with airplanes and romanian people. My first book, and when i was child i read it again and again...
Ok. More serious - a little book "Sa vii acasa pe un nor" with some of the chapters with IAR-39 storyes.
Back at childhood age - i read another one, a verry nice one, i forget his name, was with childrens in nearby of one of the airports of the ARR and "G" (at that momment i considered it was Fiat "G"-50...) and some of the real pilots from that period, pre and post 23 Aug. 1944. Some love storys, nice-nice-nice for that age.

Iama

Hello Denes

I hope you spent a nice x-mas. I started to read " Fortress Ploesti" and the author does mention you as the source of most ARR photos printted in...however he doesnt mention about the Roumanian author who participated or anything about a Roumanian partner on that books since this was part of some discussions on here.

Also there's an other book called Rescue from Ploesti by William G.Williams , did you provide the very rare ARR photos in there because u arent mentioned ? He claims that most of its photos were from Maxwell AFB in the US....?

Let me know

Alex

I passed again in front of the Military Library. The author of "Festung Ploiesti" isn't mentioned on the cover. Only the Prahova County Museum of History and Archaeology.

Yes, I did help Jay Stout in his project with photos and info. However, he had a "mysterious" Rumanian collaborator, who did not want his name to be disclosed.

I am not aware of this book. Can you briefly describe the type of photos included in it? Are there any photos of Rumanian airplanes or airmen?

Gen. Dénes

There is a Rumanian language web site related to aviation - maintained by a former University professor of mine from Brasov - where various Rumanian books on aviation are listed on two pages.
Aviatori

Gen. Dénes

I did not want my name mentioned because I really didn't do much, except find and translate some passages from different books. I asked Mr. Stout to give the credits to the actual authors.

Hello Denes

Yes there are photos ARR I never saw before . But most intriguing of all are photos of Cantacuzino with Col.Gunn drinking wine upon arrival in Foggia , a ARR ME-109 which was painted with large a US flag which landed in Italy with Cantacuzino and Gunn , the same ME-109 ispected by US officers also Americans POW's photos in Roumania and after their camp was bombed by Germans. Also US POW's preparing to leave Popesti airfiled during Operation Reunion

Alex

Hello Victor

There are as few books published in Roumania I would like to buy and due to my location i would be very grateful if you know the sources I can order them through in Boucharest by Internet or fax from end

-Jurnalul al Locotenentul Dobran
-Singurul pe cerul Stalingrad
-Escadrila 52 de Vanatoare
-Un erou Aviatorul Serbanescu

Thanks in advance
Alex