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Re: Me 110 losses on 7 September 1940 - circumstances
John
So perhaps I am confused with various reports.
CEAR is Crashed Enemy Aircraft Report. They varied in volume, depending on what was available to investigate. I have seen a one of about two pages for a Fw 190 downed in Normany, IIRC.
The K Reports that I have seen (1943-44) were about one-two pages summary of an interrogation of an airman. Those were not Q-A files.
The reports that I have got for BoB were very brief half a page reports with limited details, quite a disappointment, and I have not pursued it any further. Do I recon correctly, those were summaries?
I guess then that Lane did not see the descent of an airman, and I can only assume that the parachute canopy was shot up to collapse.
The Czech airman was Svatopluk JANOUCH. I could not locate Holderness's report, but there was at least one more RAF pilot attacking the aircraft.
The document was a diary held by one of No 303 Sqn pilots, Ferić, filed in Polish at the time of the Battle. A number of pilots put their accounts there, usually more detailed, and sometimes different to combat reports (I guess they had some problems to communicate to IO). What else details do you need?
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