Book project - The definitive Story of the Swiss P-51 Mustang Fleet
The idea for a Book about the Swiss Air Force P-51 Mustangs started over 30 years ago, when I started to collect information, data and photographs on the Swiss P-51 Mustangs. as a Modeller and Aircraft nerd, I realized that only sparse on often erroneous information on the Swiss Mustangs was available, and so I decided to write a book on this topic.
at first, in my juvenility, I believed that this was an easy task, but it wasn't...
Life happens and focus changes regularly, there is Familiy, there is a day job to manage, there are other interests... so years went by, but the flame for the Swiss Mustangs never extinquished. Looking back, it seems that the Swiss Mustangs was the only subject that endured.
Over the many years, hundreds of unpublished photos found their way into my collection, many pilots were visited and interviewed, data was retrieved from a myriad of sources, National Archives, Public Record Offices and private collections were examined. This allowed me to bzuild up a decent private archive , and every bit and piece of information was put into relation, and each of the 130 Swiss Air Force P-51 Mustangs became something like an individuum with its own history for me.
The Website 'Swiss Mustangs' first came online in 2004, and has since seen many changes, sometimes it was neglected and gathered dust, and recently it even went offline when I changed the hosting environment. It gave me, however, the opportunity to give the website a complete revision.
After all these years, I am (finally) in a time-consuming but very rewarding process of bringing all the information, photographs and datas into a readable form, namely the definitive story if the Swiss Air Force P-51 Mustang operations.
The book will be self-published by the author and can be ordered via this website in due course.
Ordering and shipping information and prices will be made available here when the book is finished.
Thank you for your patience - I truly believe it was worth the wait !
