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20.01.2022 I have heard from the long time secretary of the 250 Squadron RAF Association who provided such assistance to me when I was researching Caldwell's experiences with he squadron. Sadly, the association is folding and he is passing all the memorabilia to the Imperial War Museum in London. He will also be including the copy of Clive Caldwell Air Ace that I sent to the association in recognition of their assistance. That is a great honour for me. But a great sadness too as the association closes.

18.01.2022 Another Caldwell jotting: 'The survivors of (such?) operations can sit for hours, memories making light of physical discomfort. They are good memories. We never remember the bad times except in our dreams.'

17.01.2022 My favourite photo of Clive Caldwell. I was tempted to suggest it for a cover shot but thought the civvies and American star might have been a tad inappropriate for such a fine Australian fighter ace!

16.01.2022 Saw the notice in today's Canberra Times. A lovely man who did me the honour of launching Clive Caldwell Air Ace. One of the best interviews I drew on was an informal one where Jim was present and because of this (ie being in company of a friend who understood) CRC revealed some things he had not often shared, and certainly not on the public record. Vale.

16.01.2022 For those who may not be aware of it, I have taken a break from writing for three years and am now a full time PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales (Canberra) researching the experiences of Australian airmen in Stalag Luft III. I will be drawing on official documents and published accounts but, for the main part, wish to base my research on personal documentation created by former Australian prisoners in Stalag Luft III such as letters, diaries and published and... unpublished memoirs, and interviews. I would like make contact with the families of Australian ex-Kriegies who would be willing to provide me with access to their family records. My writing credentials are at www.kristenalexander.com.au. My contact details are: [email protected] or via my website; PO Box 746, MAWSON, ACT, 2607; Australia. So, if you are a family member, or are in contact with an ex-Kriegie family, please get in touch. And please share my message! See more

15.01.2022 It's royalty season again and for the first time, I received more e-royalties than for the printed version of Clive Caldwell Air Ace! Thanks Amazon for listing it, and thanks for buying it! http://www.amazon.com.au/Clive-Caldwell-Air-K//ref=sr_1_1

12.01.2022 I posted off all of my Clive Caldwell research material to the South Australian Aviation Museum. Glad it is going to a good home.

11.01.2022 Found a couple of interesting items while clearing out the Caldwell research material. The first is a clipping which includes Caldwell on list of entrants from metropolitan track team which visited Goulbourn in 1930 and the last in a sequence of six strips from Caldwell’s camera gun showing his last claim: a Dinah reconnaissance aircraft of 202 Naval Squadron on 17 August 1943. From simple athlete to gunnery expert in less than 13 years. Not bad.

10.01.2022 One of the photos that inspired my research into Clive Caldwell. Here, he is standing in front of his Tomahawk after he was shot at on 29 August 1941. Caldwell told a friend that ‘the wings will give you an idea of what an ME 109 can do with 20mm cannon. A decent burst of some 40 odd bullets is clustered where the oil stains are. The most of it (bullets) are in the other side and some underneath. The holes in myself are at the moment covered with plaster only for the snap which was taken for Jean’s [his wife] benefit but anyhow I wasn’t hurt worth a damn. The tyre in the starboard side as you see was hit also by bullets and a bit flat. The wing on the other side caught most bullets and one shell, the cowlings are well peppered, but like the wing this side doesn’t show it at this distance.’

08.01.2022 Good to see Clive Caldwell will appear in the Australian Dictionary of Biography in due course. My first task: correct the date of birth. Here is one of the photos which 'introduced' me to Caldwell. Note the bullet holes!

08.01.2022 Today is the 10th anniversary of the launch of Clive Caldwell Air Ace! I can hardly believe it. Here is the piece I wrote to celebrate what would have been Caldwell's 103rd birthday. Incidentally, his 106th is just around the corner. http://kristenalexanderauthor.blogspot.com.au//clive-rober

05.01.2022 I'm donating my Caldwell research material to the South Australian Aviation Museum. Taking my time going through it all before I box it off. Enjoying some of Caldwell's jottings, just random thoughts, here and there, relating to the past and incidents known only to him. Reflecting on death in the Middle East: 'Tomorrow this indifferent Pole maybe, or Jim the quiet man or old Macwilliams or myself, would cross over into the ranks for the newly dead and join the countless numbers of those who had once watched the sun setting in a flash of green light at the rim of the desert, found even the smell of fried bully beef acceptable.'

03.01.2022 The Clive Caldwell Air Ace ebook is available in the Amazon kindle store. http://www.amazon.com/Clive-Caldwell-Air-Kris//ref=sr_1_1

02.01.2022 How time flies ... Ten years ago I submitted the manuscript for Clive Caldwell Air Ace (then entitled Two Theatre Ace) to Allen & Unwin. Nine years ago, my first book was published. I can still barely believe it.