War diary of Air Intelligence Unit(s) RAF.
 

After the landing of the allied troops in Normandy in June 1944, RAF Air Intelligence unit(s) have investigated German airplanes and wrecks of airplanes on the Continent. The results were published in “Crashed enemy aircraft” reports. Some are surveys of large number of aircraft, some are reports about individual aircraft and some are a combination of both. These reports can be found in the British National Archive in London, the former PRO, in section Air 40.
I am looking for the war diaries of these Air Intelligence Unit(s) or Air Intelligence Officers who were involved in the investigations in the field in Belgium and the Netherlands. Many of the mentioned reports, published by Air Intelligence A.I.2(g) (section Aircraft and aeronautical equipment), were signed by Sqn./Ldr. M.Lambert.
Are war dairies or Operational Record Books(ORBs) of these unit(s) available in the NA in London?

Jaap

Re: War diary of Air Intelligence Unit(s) RAF.
 

I have been through an awful lot of AIR40 (Air Ministry), AIR37 (2 TAF), AIR23 and AIR24 (MAAF & MATAF) files with "intelligence" in the title looking for what you're asking about and the results have been disappointing. You seem to get either policy memos, "personnel occurrence reports" or detailed movement orders from one camp to the next (who rides on what truck) - NOT detailed discussion of each day's aircraft discoveries, sad to say.

As for Operations Record Books, there are Air Technical Intelligence Appendices to the ORBs of 2 TAF etc. The best seem to be those of No. 85 Group whose Intelligence Officer was obviously enthusiastic about his job - he tried to match crash reports with his Group's pilots' sortie reports etc.

Re: War diary of Air Intelligence Unit(s) RAF.
 

Hi Jaap and Nick,
Perhaps the RAF Air Historical Branch at Bentley Priory may be able to help, Mike Hatch is the guy to contact, he told me, some time ago, that he knew of a few "K" and "G" reports for that area, but not many, the E-mail address is ahb.raf@btconect.cp
Good Luck.
Regards
Joe

Re: War diary of Air Intelligence Unit(s) RAF.
 

I have trawled the AHB quite thoroughly and have never seen such reports even though they have a full set of K reports

Re: War diary of Air Intelligence Unit(s) RAF.
 

Thanks guys,

I had the AHB as a second possibility in mind.
Will give it a shot. You never know.

Maybe someone can give some information about how A.I.2.(g) was working on the Continent during 1944/45?
Were there special units of A.I.2(g) operating in the campaign or did HQ A.I.2(g) receive information from regular RAF troops of 2ndTAF and HQ in the UK made the reports?

Jaap