[Kapper]

Johannes

In my notes I have the following information on Brendel‘s claims.

1st abschuss on 4th Fiendflug on 29.06.41
2nd abschuss on 120th Fiendflug on 31.03.42
50th abschuss on 412th Fiendflug on 09.07.43
100th abschuss on 551st Fiendflug on 22.11.43
150th abschuss on 792nd Fiendflug on 16.10.44

Unfortunately, I don’t have the reference where I got this information from but such information would only be avaliable from the flugbuch which obviously must have survived, thus could only have come from someone who had access to the books.

I raise this data because of the confusion mentioned with the 28.08.44 claim in the earlier post. The details you have for the 28.08.44 claim in your list (that you sent to me earlier) is for a claim on the 26.08.44 yet it‘s dated 28.08.44. You seem to be missing the 28.08.44 claim as shown below. Both the 26.08.44 and 28.08.44 claims are in the Woods list and Priens work and the annerk number also fits.

26.08.44 Hptm. Joachim Brendel 1./JG 51 LaGG-3  13 264: at 500 m. 08.45 Film C. 2035/II Anerk: Nr. 608
28.08.44 Hptm. Joachim Brendel 1./JG 51 Yak-9  13 245 at 1.000 m. 14.11 Film C. 2035/II Anerk: Nr. 722

I mentioned the Fiendflug information because if you include this extra claim, (and include the 2 ASM claims of 14.12.42 & 28.07.43, that may or may not have been confirmed) to your claims list, the total on 16.10.44 meets exactly 150 abschuss as per the fiendflug data. When not including the 2 ASM claims, then that would make the 150th confirmed claim on 19.10.44 instead of the 22.10.44.

You may want to check this out. BTW I agree with your comments on the other claims mentioned in this thread.

Regards,

Craig...