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Re: II./JG 51 losses 28-Nov-42 in Tunis?
Dear Laurent,
too much honour for me - Hans Ring and Christopher Shores did not have any of my unit histories at their disposal when they published Fighters over the Desert in 1969 and Fighters over Tunisia in 1975 whereas the first volume of my JG 53 history appeared only in 1989. Neither Ring / Shores nor me had any knowledge of the claims microfilms held by tha B.A. back then, the first parts of these becoming available just in time to be partly exploited for JG 53 Vol. 3. So Hans Ring and Chris Shores did not have to draw on my works as they didn't even exist back then but quite to the contrary Hans Ring helped me a great deal when I worked on JG 53.
I have made it very clear in each of the JFV series volumes that the older claims lists were based on the very limited source material at hand in the late eighties and that for both JG 53 and JG 77 the lists needed a very thorough work-over which is still in the process as the JFV series continues.
Kind regards
Jochen Prien
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