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Old 27th December 2005, 12:42
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Re: Summarische Verlustmeldung vs. Bestandsmeldung

Norbert
I think there should be a distribution list as well as a date of submitting on headers of original monthly reports. This possibly allow some conclusions but you should not overestimate value of those documents. They were not primary ones, filed based on other documents and prone for every kind of error, including typos. A comparison of monthly reports vs GQ6 losses of JG26 in the Spring 1942 indicates that there are errors in subvariants, classification of losses and ommisions. Statistical analysis leads to other, surprising conclusions.
It seems research on the German aircraft is not up to RAF research standard. What is needed, is a careful research on every aircraft and every sortie based on every available document and not only few surviving KTBs or GQ6 lists.
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