Quote:
Originally Posted by Rottler
Gen.Qu.: Hptm Wilhelm Lembke I./JG 3 Bf 109 G-6 410388
|
Hello Leo, if Gen.Qu reported Lemke as I./JG 3 (and it is not a simple typo of your part), that was a big mistake, as Lemke was commading II./JG 3, but then the Brekkens database could be right in the end, because there is also one loss to enemy fighters noted for enemy fighters this day for I./JG 3.
I don't have Prien's book for 1943 to check if I./JG 3 suffered a loss this day or not.
By the way, if there is no I./JG 3 loss known and it appears one of the three II./JG 3 losses was wrongly reported as I./JG 3, so all three losses were listed as "shot down by enemy aircraft".
Can the hour of the report listed above (1700 hrs) be the hour of the report rather than the hour of the crash ? So Soßdorf could have been shot down before the report, when Allied fighters were in the area.