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Re: JG 301 mission on 17 Dec 44
Hello John, Jerry, Erich --
From Jerry's Flugbuch report we can rule out 23 Dec as a replacement for Reschke's "17 Dec". John's report from German records on Tauscher's loss (or injury?) on 5 Dec is an intriguing clue, but Reschke's extensive writeup of the 5 Dec JG 301 mission makes no mention that he himself flew. Could he have forgotten that he flew on 5 Dec, but had a definite memory of flying another mission (shooting down a B-24, etc., for which he apparently had film at one time) to which he arbitrarily assigned a date of 17 Dec? Possibly, but that's a memory trick I find hard to believe. Jerry, you can help with this one. Does Reschke's FB mention a flight on 5 Dec? If so, we can possibly mush his 17 Dec report into the 5 Dec report. If not, we can't -- unless his FB is in error! (Which did happen, by the way.)
Gosh, this is fun....
Don
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