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Re: Luftwaffe Fighter Claims - 27 July 1940
Peter
I checked the Gerlitz claim, and it seems listing it on the 27th is wrong!
Woods and later Cull (possibly taking it from the former) has read a digit 1 as a digit 7. Knowing how some individual handwrite their digits 1 with a "horrible" hook at the top, that is very understandable.
However Gerlitz claim was on the 21st of July not the 27th. The time is the same 16.35H
That then leaves the claim of von Aspern as a valid contender.
As always, Johannes can have made a mistake, none is infallible, but he knows what he is talking (writing) about!
Checking Prien's books is a tough going, since one has to look up every unit instead of the day in question. My books are a bit inaccessible right now, but if no suggestions come forward, I will go through them later on.
Cheers
Stig
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