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Originally Posted by G.R.Morrison
John,
You're perhaps misunderstanding Jim's statement about 3147 being "suspect." We don't doubt that it falls in the right Werknummer range, but if it crashes in England in 1940, it's unlikely (!) to show up later in other reports of incidents in NJG or Schule units. What this means is that 3147 could be a typo for the Gravenreuth / Reinhold loss. There's no shortage of typos in the loss reports, with transposed numbers the most-frequently encountered. If those clerks had only known how their work would be "inspected" so many decades later...
The best to you on Boxing Day,
GRM
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Tell me about it! Peter Cornwell and I have never been able to square the following (both 18 August 1940):
Bf 110 C-4 (probably upgraded C-2)
U8+BB
W. Nr. 3102
Proske & Möbius
and
Bf 110 C-2
3U+EP
W. Nr. 3102
Kästner & Kaffenberger
Also the Bf 110 of Koepsell & Schmidt on 27th September 1940 having one W. Nr. entered in the QMs returns, and a different one on the part of the actual aircraft found at the crash site (per information from Ken Wakefield).
Bloody Luftwaffe clerks indeed!!!
The point I was making is that given 3147 with V.(Z)/LG 1 has a build date some months earlier than the loss, that much is consistent. With the other entries in the loss/damage list, it throws everything up in the air.