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Old 14th July 2017, 01:23
Jim P. Jim P. is offline
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Re: Two Heinkel 111 J losses (with the same WNr 5050)

Gonna throw in something of a wrench here. Are any of you guys familiar with another set of loss reports, which I've been told are referred to as the "Bones reports"? I have a few pages and they're very hard to figure out. They list losses by month it seems with minimal detail - aircraft type, SKZ/code, reason for loss, casualties (as numbers) and not much else. No specific dates within the month. The earliest page I have is from Jan-40 (p.100), the latest, Nov-40 (p.246). Does anyone have a complete set of these, and if so, are there any references to He 111J aircraft lost at the end of May-40 - first of Jun-40?

Other than that, got nothing. The loss reports are replete with transcription errors - we're talking clerks manually typing what's presented to them. Did errors occur from the source info or the typists? (And if my typing is anything to go by, we're danged lucky they seem to be as accurate as they are!!)
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