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Originally Posted by Stig Jarlevik
To me even more strange is that both these aircraft came down pretty much intact. This means their WNr surely had to be visible somewhere on both aircraft. They were both investigated and both WNr should be on the documents issued since after all WNr were important since it could (and did) give Intel a better idea about aircraft production in Germany.
To my surprise this info seems to be missing, since it is at least not mentioned in Nigel Parker's interesting new books about Luftwaffe crashes in Britain, see vol 2. Instead he makes the same remarks as we do, that Luftwaffe records give the same WNr to both losses.
Cheers
Stig
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To add to this, both Peter Cornwell and I have examined the AI(1)G reports and AI(1)K summaries (as have many others), and can confirm that the W. Nr. were not shown on those reports. Otherwise we would have had the info published long ago.
It's a combination of bad handwriting/typo at the Luftwaffe end, and no W. Nr. being recorded by the RAF Intelligence services. As you know, 18th August was one of the busiest days in the BoB for those few guys chasing around southern England checking downed Luftwaffe aircraft...