[Tom Willis]

Thanks Nick a very interesting intercept
The end location of Oranienburg and reference to a captured Lightning to me clearly indicates 2./Vers.Verb.Ob.d.Lw. All known records indicate that this unit always referred to a Harvard and no other name was used. In their book on this Unit Smith & Creek say that it was in November 1944 that a captured example was acquired (confusingly they use a photo of a NAA64 - DR+XD - which was an ex-French example from mid 1940) Clearly this new information puts the time-line a few months earlier. I do not have any specific data on the use of the Harvard by the Allies after D Day but 6 weeks had passed so could one example used by a Transport/Reconnaisance/General Staff Unit have gone astray and landed in German held territory, hence the URGENT transfer radio traffic from France to Germany. Any further info available would be most grateful - Thanks