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Originally Posted by claudio82clod (Post 84549)

I understand...
So, the only possibility is some local newspaper or german association of veterans...do you know someone?

Claudio: it is very unlikely now that veterans of 6.(F)/122 are still alive: it was a very small unit and 65 years have passed.

Regarding Ed North's point "However there are two numbers stated: Ju 188 150236 F6+IP in Barry Ketley's ´KG 200´ book ..."

1. It was mostly Geoff Thomas's book which Barry completed after Geoff's early death.

2. There is a second loss report for the same crew, filed on the same sheet as one for a KG 200 aircraft (Geoff Thomas sent me a copy). This plainly gives the WNr. as 150235 but the aircraft's code is not clearly typed. Even so, I still read it as F6+LP because the typewriter's upper case "I" has a serif at top and bottom whereas the letter in the code has no top serif, so I make it an "L."

The aircraft's mission is listed as "Feindflug" (operational flight) and place of loss unknown. The crew are all missing but there is a hand written addition dated 29.11.44 (I think) which notes that all four are dead. No place of burial is stated.

The loss information we used in "Air War Italy" was from a list compiled by a Berlin researcher, Arno Abendroth, and sent to Ferdinando D'Amico about 20 years ago. Looking at it now, I obviously misread the abbreviation "v" as "verwundet" (wounded) when it should have been "vermisst" (missing). A little late to discover that mistake ...

P.S. The existence of two loss reports is not unique. A KG 200 detachment was based at Bergamo with 4. & 6.(F)/122 and sometimes both units filed a report of the same loss. Years ago (before German laws changed) Geoff and I found we had been sent different reports on the same KG 200 aircraft by the Deutsche Dienststelle, giving slightly different information.