Hermann Goering in WWI -- 3 Q's

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Is there a book, magazine article, or some other work about the WWI flying career of Hermann Göring that's accurate? Most biographries of him give it just a chapter and I've found that they don't agree on some points.

Also, I understand that a book about his years in Sweden was published there in the 1980's. Was it ever published in English?

Finally, how do you insert those accented characters into the subject and message? (Goering is the correct English spelling in the absence of them.)

Dear Roundel,
I'm unable to answer your second question; however, in regards to the first, I have found the following books most helpful:

1) UNDER THE GUNS OF THE GERMAN ACES Norman Franks & Hal Giblin, Grub Street, 1997 (please check EDWARDRHAMILTON.com);

2) GÖRING Roger Manvell, Ballantine Books, 1972;

3) THE RED BARON COMBAT WING Peter Kilduff, Arms & Armour Press, 1997;

Lastly, as to 'connecting the dots', or "adding the umlaut" (as it's known around the Bund), on an Apple-Mac keyboard, hit the 'option' key and the 'u' key (indicating umlaut), then type the letter (either 'u' or 'o'); on a PC keyboard, the 'option' key should correspond to the 'alt' key... Gööd Lück!

There is "The Combat Records of Hermann Göring" by Frank J. Olynyk *which appears in "Over the Front" Volume 10 Number 3 Fall 1995.
In the same issue is *"The Aircraft of Hermann Göring" , monotone profiles and descriptions of his aircraft *by Greg Van Wyngarden.

* *I believe both these fine *gentleman frequent the aerodrome forum. *

* * * * * * * * *Hope this helps,

* * * * * * * * * * * *Les 8)
* * * * * * *

[Frank_Olynyk]

My article on Hermann Göring, as noted above, was based on the materials captured with him in 1945, now held at the Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in the Army War College library.

To make diacritic marks on the PC, you will either need:
a) the character set page from an old DOS manual, in which case you hold down the Alt key, and type on the numeric pad the value shown in the manual. *For ö it is 148, for ü it is 129. *éâäàåçêëèïîìÄÅÉæÆôöòû (etc, the values from 130 to 150; they go up to 254 -- its the upper half of 8 bit ASCII in code page 437, other code pages will be different).

B) in Windows 2000, install the relevant keyboard for the language of interest to you. *I am not sure if (all) come with Windows 2000. *I bought the Office 2000 Proofing Tools CD ($75 ?), and installed a couple as experiments a long time ago.

c) Bring up the Windows Help file (through Start), then ask for the Character map, find the character of interest to you, select and copy it, then paste where you want it. *You can also note the value of the character (0246 in the case of ö) and type that in. *Note that this is dependent on the character set shown, although most of the roman fonts should use the same values. *If you want some real fun, check out the Arial Unicode MS font; it is considerably bigger than plain ol' Arial. *To take advantage of it you may have to be in an Office 2000 product, Word, Excel or Access. 兵 Or maybe not. *Interestng. *The "CJK Unified Ideograph" appearing before the word "Or" shows correctly in the message preparation window, but as the strange character and number combination you see posted. Oh well, I guess you have to shift to Unicode somehow to display it on this board.

Frank.

[Roundel]

Thanks for the information! I just figured out how to insert the accented vowels using the menu in the box at the lower right section of the "Add YABBC tags" icons. Position your curser in the message box, find and highlight the vowel in the menu, and click. ÄËÏÖÜŸ! But it only seems to work if you move the arrow from another letter first.

I'm especially thankful for the information about Göring's WWI career. I've read the Mosley and Irving biographies and they don't jibe with each other and with some other books that I've read. Yet Mosley had access to people who knew Göring, including his widow, stepson, and sisters, while Irving had access to some then-recently discovered papers.

I know that two incidents in Göring's WWI career now seem doubtful. One is the infantry recon patrol in late 1914 that allegedly nearly netted a Franch general and nearly got his patrol wiped out. The other is that Göring went AWOL from his hospital in early 1915 in order to attend flight school.

[Gregvan]

In addition to Frank's superb article in "Over the Front" and the other good sources mentioned above, check out Neal O'Connor's Volume VI - "The Aviation Awards of the Grand Duchies of Baden and Oldenburg". It contains a well-balanced and informative piece on the parallel careers of Goering and Bruno Loerzer.

Greg

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Gregvan:

Thanks for the tip about the connection with Loerzer. I believe that Irving's biography quotes him as telling USAAF interrogators post-WWII that Göring padded his WWI claims and urged him to do so as well.