[Johannes]

Hi Guys

Thanks for your responses and link. I was pondering the getting away with it issue, then checked Stotz's claims against those of his fellow conrads and found a few possible collusions, but nothing major, but thought about my theory about his Kommandeur Hans Hahn, and they absolutely match perfectly, basically Hahn borrowed Stotz as his wingman from 4./JG54. As mentioned before as soon as Hahn is gone then Stotz's claims pattern reverts back to unspectacular.

Anyway tried the same thing with Nowotny, and again absolutely matching with his former wingmen Dobele ans Schnorrer, Nowotny always claims two to Schnorrer's one, he just used his authority to borrow his former collusioners from 1./JG54. There seems to be no link with Rudolf Rademacher, who rarely flew with Nowotny....if at all, so another myth about the "Greatest Schwarm" broken, the fourth person was Gerhard Loos, until he was transfered to the West.

I will next try this with Hartmann and Batz and see how it looks. But looks like Kommandeur didn't/couldn't self witness, but could just fly with who they wanted!

Kind Regards

Johannes