[Adriano Baumgartner]

Hello BRIAN,

I thought you should know something...being aware of your incredible search/research for your BLUE on BLUE books/project.

I quite agree with you about the "mission impossible" to pin point those claims; however, I am sure that the Royal Navy, US Navy and other units should need to write reports of their own actions (even Infantry Battalions should record their activities as well...). SO, some kind of record "must" exist...the real problem is to dig them out...

Maybe in a long long futur some B.I. or T.I. genius will link the Bundesarchiv WW2 records with those stored at NARA, etc...this way we (researchers) will have an "easier" access simply digiting a date, for instance/example: 06 June 1944....and all records would appear, all losses, all data available....but in the real world, one have to dig them out, those informations, which is the tricky but exciting processus....

By the way: the Mustang Ia I am looking for was recorded lost nearby Nillian-sur-Mer. I tried to find this small town near Normandy, but found no way...so I may assume it could be around CAEN (maybe Lion-sur-Mer). Do you happen to have the "area" of those two Mustang losses? This could narrow a bit the RN or US Navy ships involved....

By the way, a personal question: did you separate the BLUE on BLUE books by date or by Army / Navy / Air Forces or countries involved? It is indeed a fascinating topic.

Thanks for the best wishes for 2013...wish you the same, with a lot of good reading and time for researches too!

Sincerely yours, my friend,
Adriano S. Baumgartner