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Re: Bf 109 G-6, WerkNr. 441 744
Dear Frans,
thank you for taking the time to respond to my request. As I mentioned in my earlier post, according to the available primary sources IV./JG 27 did not suffer any losses on 31 July 1944. I too had this photo labelled as 31 July 1944 so far, but I need a document-based confirmation of that or any other date. The GQM Summary Loss Reports are far from free of errors and omissions so that 31 July is not ruled out simply by the fact that the GQM and the WASt. don't show a loss on that date. But to quote the date as certain contrary to these two sources, it requires some sort of hard proof.
What also puzzles me is that the pilot apparently came down over allied territory so that he should be either KIA or, looking at the condition of the a/c, have been taken POW - yet, again nothing in the sources that would fit.
KR
Jochen Prien
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