h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi All (and particularly vickyvph and mighty8th)

After a prolonged stock-out, I once again have 2 copies of the book, products of junkshop browsing. (One of them looks to be brand new, but it's bound upside down! The other is slightly foxed, as they say).

Anyone who wants one can have one. I just need an address to post it to. This will be on a first come, first served basis, but of course crew families are especially welcome.

The book is out of print, so there might not be too many more to come, but I plan to keep looking. My latest post to this thread will always include a count of how many copies I've got.

Pin

Hi Pin,

I got a copy from Amazon the other day and found the book very interesting. I don`t often go to Sheffield but as i was there on Friday i went up to the park and paid my respects at the Memorial Stone. I have given the book to my Mum and she has read it twice. As i looked back from the park to Hunterhouse Road where she used to live, it is a direct line as the "crow flies". This still brings memories back to her and she is eternally grateful for the bravery shown by the pilot and the young crew, who just missed her house.

Hi Rob

I hope the book helped your Mum. I guess that a witness reading it might get completion of what must otherwise seem like a random and shocking event.

The geography of the crash is one of the mysteries. Lots of accounts prove that the initial approach was from the south east and would indeed have overflown Hunterhouse Road. Somehow Mi Amigo came to rest pointing down the hill behind where the cafe now stands, almost due South.

We guess that Lt Kriegshauser must have attempted a tight turn to put down in the park, but lost too much height and hit the trees at the top of the bank.

Windfall. I've got eleven copies now!
Anyone interested?

Hi Pinniped, My Mum has not stopped talking about this since i mentioned it again a few weeks back. She would really appreciate her own copy of the book and i would be happy to reimburse you and postage.

Incidentally, both her twin brother and herself don`t recall any snow on the ground at the time so still some contradiction with regards to the story!

Thanks

Rob

Give me an address and I'll send one on (don't worry about money, unless she lives in Australia).

It certainly looks like snow in the pictures, and Harvey is explicit about it, in the context of sifting the debris afterwards. It's possible that it only fell overnight after the crash, though.

Thanks, she will really appreciate this. Her address is: Mrs E James. 11 Martindale Close, Loughborough, Leics LE11 3RF.

Do you know where i can obtain a picture of the plane before its demise? I`ve got my airbrush artist on case!

Thanks again

Rob

will post ASAP

There's no known picture of Mi Amigo, except those of the wreck. The pictures of the crew At Geiger Field is with another aircraft (Shebolli). Every image known is in the book.

This link shows the livery of the 305th BG:
http://www.8thafhs.org/bomber/305bg.htm

Duly sent

Book count now = 10

Thanks Pinniped. Mum is very grateful for the book.

Another sent

9 left

I would love to have the book, I am a neice of Malcom Williams, he was a gunrunner on that plane that went down.

Phyllis Strecker
P.O. Box 21855
Hot Springs, Ar

I would love to have the book, I am a neice of Malcom Williams, he was a gunrunner on that plane that went down.

Phyllis Strecker
P.O. Box 21855
Hot Springs, Ar 71903

Hi Phyllis
Will send one.
(I'm sure you know Joyce, aka Jaws45, another niece of G Malcolm Williams and with the same home town. If you also know mighty8th, another relative of your uncle, could you let him know too?)
I've copied your address, so if you now want to delete it, you can. (The way to do this is to click the 'make a complaint' button on the individual post. It probably looks like an exclamation mark in a circle)
Please note that as a rule I'm not going to delete addresses posted here. That's partly because I don't like yikesing, but mainly to help the families find each other.

Thank you so much, is Joyce is my sister, we love the site. Malcom
williams was my uncle. We are going to lawton, Ok. This week, and vist
his grave. Thanks so much. Randy williams is my cousin. I noticed he also has found this site. Thanks Phyllis

Yes, I would like a book of Mi amigo, my uncle was a gun-runner on the plane that went down, Malcom Williams.

Phyllis Strecker
P.O. Box 21855
Hot Springs, Ar 71903


Thanks so much for this site. My Uncle will never be forgotten.

Duly posted - 2 to pbrcow (one's for mighty8th) and 1 to jules.

So now we have 6 left.

How exciting to find this site about the Mi Amigo and it's crew. Lyle Curtis, the co-pilot was my mom's favorite cousin, they played together all the time when they were children. If you still have a copy of the book I would love one for our family. Thank you again for all the information you have about the Mi Amigo and it's crew, the crash was devastating for all families of the crew.

Thank you.........

Dear L_Curtis_niece

Thank you for posting. It's a special experience and a humbling one when crew family members get in touch.

Lt Curtis' family is one that David Harvey (author of the book) had already made contact with by the time of publication, and in the book he describes the visit to Sheffield of Lt Curtis' widow (Erma) and daughter (Barbara).

I still have copies of the book and it would be my pleasure to send you one. I will need a postal address, of course. If you are happy to do so, please post your address here. If you would rather not, then please tell me so in a reply here and I will provide an e-mail address for you to send the address to.

(Note that it's possible to delete individual postings, so if you want to remove your address once I've picked it up, that can be done. I don't delete addresses posted here unless asked though, because they could be useful for the crew families to find each other).

Thank you so very, very much!

Leslie Conklin
8716 Delta Street
La Mesa, California 91942-3209
United States