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Originally Posted by Tom Willis
Thanks Laurent
The NAA 57 No 157 I have listed as with 2./JG107 crashing near Toul with 80% damage but the date is 23.03.43 and not 1944. Can you please confirm your date or is mine a mistake? - Thanks
Also any chance of giving the details of location and damage of the French Accidents as I have several being captured later by the Germans - Thanks
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For the NAA 57, my source is an article in the magazine Avions n°88 (July 2000) by C Archambault and P Lapierre about the losses of non operational units of Luftwaffe in France in March 1944. The associated loss list says that on 23 March Uffz Albert Roos of JG 107 was killed and his NAA 57 WNr 157 destroyed a 80% in a crash near Toul.
The Volksbund database has 14 Albert Roos, including none in March 1943 and one on 23 March 1944 who died near Toul.
So I guess the 1944 date is correct.
As for the French losses in 1939-1940, I took them from a PDF compiled by the French Historical service. AFAIK it is no more available on its website bu is in a genealogical website here:
https://genealomaniac.fr/rechercher/..._pub_00000363/
(I checked the file is the same than the one I downloaded in 2016).
This file will give you date, location, aircraft type, serial number, and the name of the pilot/crew... but nothing about the fate of crew and of aircraft. I checked a part of these files in the archives years ago, and some files are for incidents when aircraft got lost and landed almost withou damage. Also here was no clear code for wrecked aircraft, and some time it is unclear if the aircraft was repaired or not. I only took notes then from aircraft clearly destroyed or for which there was at least one fatality, so can provide if I dig into my papers some details for grave accidents, but will have nothing on other (basically the ones where the repaired aircraft will be used later by the Luftwaffe).