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Originally Posted by pelagonia
… in Vicenza airfield on May 4th 1945 for instance, No.1 F.I.U. unit (Party 'B') found a fw190 belonging to NSGr. 9 … While they correctly recorded its codes as E8+EH, they forgot to enter in their report its W.Nr. (584562), which is perfectly readable on the tail in period photographs …
Andrea
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I'm sure boredom played a part in the mistakes made (and wanting to get back to base for the next meal and all the other human weaknesses) but also the dispersal areas were very extensive and I could see how you might miss one amongst the trees or whatever. Then there were all the normal mistakes that you can make in typing up a set of notes: duplication of entries, misunderstanding hand writing, typos etc. I also have one example of what seems to be mishearing: a final report mentions a CR. 42 coded "EH+FH" but years later I found an earlier draft on file and it was "E8+FH"