[Johannes]

Hi Michael

Thank you for the praise, much appreciated.

Marquardt stated to David Williams that when he was shot down on 1st May 1945 his flugbuch was with him, and went down into a river with his aircraft.

Post mikrofilms the only concrete evidence of Marquardt claims is a flugbuch of another pilot in his Staffel. There are about four(by memory) that he was witness to, and bless him he even numbered them, to give this a reliability text he also witnessed some of Marquardt's 1944 claims covered by the mikrofilms, and they are a complete match 100%, he is also the guy who mentions Tanzer.

KBT papers cover 1945, usually only high scoring pilots are mentioned by name, Marrquardt would qualify, but those I have only cover sectors of the front where Marquardt was not. But it's quite possible that KBT papers will come to light and mention him....so fingers crossed.

Point is that we uncover more evidence as time goes on.

Keep well

Johannes