[Brian Bines]

Graham, Thanks very much for your help, looking at the Mighty Eighth War Diary I could not see a mission for 1st-Feb-1944. Perhaps Goertz tagged onto a Group on a practice flight, is there anything to say if he still flew with Erich Sommer on this mission. The Schiffer profile in the text said A-04 was heavily damaged with 2(F)/122 in Italy and returned to Arado ( late 1943) and was finally lost in a crashlanding in Poland in autumn 1944. Would the repairs at Arado account for what you describe as a hybrid airframe,

Thanks again,

Brian Bines