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The book "The Flying Dutchman," Henry Holt and Co., Inc., 1931 on Anthony Fokker has been found to contain a lot of "colorful" stories that aren't true. Peter Grosz, Alex Imrie, and others have unearthed a lot of information that comes directly from Fokker company archives and from correspondence/interviews with surviving engineering staff, etc. to back it up.
Fokker "dictated" the book to a writer named Gould but didn't rely on a lot of hard evidence, it being more of a memoir.
So even though the other BAH book is quoting the Fokker/Gould "Flying Dutchman" book, the source material is flawed. While an interesting book, it needs to be taken with more than a grain of salt and weighed with other research.
The WWI Aero research, Imrie and Grosz material would be good to reference to get a more balanced picture.
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