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Re: JG 301 mission on 17 Dec 44
Hi Peter --
I'm no European, and my knowledge of your geography is not that good, but I can read a map, and in a quick SWAG Hannover and Kassel are roughly 600km from Blechhammer and Odertal. Are you saying that some of the B-24s (& P-51s) were that far off course, in the direction opposite their bases in Italy, which were already at maximum range from the Silesian targets? I'm sorry, I don't buy it. Some (American) navigator would have screamed. Also, a screw-up that big would have found its way into the American records, and I can find no trace of it in any of my 15th AF stuff. Do you have anything on the JG 301 mission that isn't found in Reschke's book?
Horrido!
Don
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