[Marcel van Heijkop]

To clarify things a bit, one of the questions Jaap and I have on this raid against Lincoln is:

What's the official source (i.e. British or Luftwaffe document) for the claim that Lt. Hans Altrogge (I./KG66) led 3 Ju 188's to bomb the Ruston & Hornsby factory in what's allegedly the Ju 188's first combat mission?

We found references to this claim in the older literature, such as Putnam's "German aircraft of the Second World War" by Smith and Kay (1972) and Air International Vol. 22 No. 4. (April 1982), but we wondered where they got it from... After all a lot of persistent Luftwaffe myths have their origin in this era... Or does it perhaps originate from Hans Altrogge himself? (Unfortunately he died a couple of years ago...)

Thanks in advance,

Marcel