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Originally Posted by Johannes
Hi Michel
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In existence is a 15./JG52 dairy written during the war, which lists all claims, but in a blatant act of legal piece making the U.S.A destroyed the library they were housed in and half the volumes were destroyed. The destruction of this none-military target is likely to have been opportunist as another target(again none-military) was the Chinese embassy which was destroyed twice....killing it's occupants. Can't see a motive for destroying the library, I can only image it was to destroy history itself. I don't think these missing volumes were ever copied, hopefully they were but just have not yet come to light.
Hope this is a good explanation.
Johannes
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Hi Johannes,
Could you possibly elaborate on this? It's the first time I've heard that the USAAF intentionally targeted libraries during the war, military or otherwise, much less the embassies of its allies, as was the case with China. This claim is right up there with the allegations made by BA-MA archivists over the years that all of the missing Luftwaffe records from 2. Weltkrieg are hidden in the United States and were never returned in the 1960's as agreed to and promised.
Thanks,
Larry de Zeng