Dear Johannes,
Thank you for your answer. Yes, I had a nice Christmas, and I hope so did you. I also hope you have received the email I sent you. :-)
Well, stepping on a mine might have been very dangerous, don't you think? Anyway, I'm surprised that fighter pilots should have been allowed to walk on ground that contained mines. After all, they were highly proficient experts, not ordinary soldiers, so it's strange that wasting their lives in such a way should have been tolerated.
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Originally Posted by Johannes
Dear Teresa
Hope you had a nice Christmas.
With Weiß I cannot find a loss detail for him during the period you suggest, which makes me think it was other than in combat i.e illness, perhaps he stepped on a mine or something. However there is a break in his claims from 13th April 1943 until 2nd August 1943. I do have details of him being injured on 11th September 1943 flying a Fw190, but injuries must have been light as he claimed again on 15th September 1943.
My co-author John Foreman told me years ago that Weiß's claims were honest, as his claim pattern would suggest. I do have photos of him from 1944 with his left arm in a sling, so injured/wounded again.
Actually he doesn't seem to be wearing a wedding ring as this time. He did seem to be a happy chap, as smiling in most of his photographs. He was shot down and killed by K.F Hannes of 331 squadron flying a Spitfire.
Kind Regards
Johannes
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