Hi, Andreas.
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Originally Posted by Andreas Brekken
And as far as I have been told, details of individual aircraft losses was entered primarily in the war diaries, these details would then be unavailable for this unit during the timespan indicated.
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No. War diary isn't the "first" document. And individual aircraft losses repeated in many documents: operative records of all levels (regiment's losses repeated in divisional, corps and air army records), combat reports, special documents about losses (incl. acts of investigation) and so on. All these data can be cross-checked with 5-days reports, for example - roughly analogue of well-known German "Flugzeugbestand und Bewegungsmeldungen", but far more detailed.
Some problems with detailed loss list maybe in such chaotic times as summer 1941.
I research 1943-44 mainly - a picture of losses are establishing relatively easily irrespective to presence of war diaries.
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Originally Posted by Andreas Brekken
By far one of the most interesting threads in a long time on the board - hopefully the archives of the Northern Fleet will be correspondingly available some time in the future...
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Hm... Papers of VVS Northern Fleet opened many years ago...
By the way, are the ULTRA records contains detailed intercepts about Luftwaffe on Kuban in 1943?
Regards,
Andrey [/quote]