[RodM]

Hi Marcel,

It is the hand-written annotation that appears to read "T 16" that is the red herring. I don't know what it means, but if it is ignored, the rest of the figures under Part N add up to the total of 83 a/c given in Part C.

The original Form B contained two obvious errors in Parts F and N, and Part N has two hand-written amendments added plus a hand-written question mark, while the error in Part F is unchanged. Such inconsistencies in the original signal would no doubt have been queried by the message recipients...

Yes, there is a chance that there are later signals on file that contain amendments to the original Form B. These will not likely be a revised copy of the Form B itself, but rather a signal or signals providing amendments to the original form, I base this conclusion on experience working with the files containing Form Bs and files containing a range of other telexed signals from the late war period, where such amendments to the originally transmitted data exist.

But I cannot state for certain that they will be on file in this case, only that it is likely they are on file.

Cheers

Rod