[Peter Cornwell]

The differences you mention are not the result of any new archives being located I regret to say. They are due to the Luftwaffe Crash Archive choosing to duplicate information as originally documented in the wartime A.I.1(k) Reports held in the AIR40 series at the National Archives in Kew. As a result, the vast bulk of the textual information the Luftwaffe Crash Archive contains was over 70 years old on publication and, as such, full of such errors. Interesting maybe from an historical viewpoint but far from being historically accurate which is a great shame as the series otherwise provides very good photo coverage. I was unsuccessful in my efforts to persuade the publisher to adopt a different approach when first provided with an initial draft of Volume 1 and despite printed acknowledgements have had nothing to do with the series. My own lists enjoy the benefit of considerable post-war research and incorporates information from a wide variety of additional sources unavailable to RAF Intelligence back in 1940. So the differences you note are not the result of research over the past three years but a far longer period most of it prior to publication of the Luftwaffe Crash Archive series.