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Re: Johannes Steinhoff victories
Johannes
Very interesting.
With his typed out Flugbuch, which one do you mean? Surely he must have had more than one. So do you have all of them?
Where are the originals of Steinhoff's Flugbücher kept today?
Did Steinhoff, when still alive, acknowledge the books were his and original?
I am asking since Christian has obviously access to/seen what he claims to be Steinhoff's FB for mission 1097 dated 29 Sep 1944 (see post 14).
If your typed out list for 29 Sep 1944 does not have any claims at all is it possible Christian (or the person who typed your list) has read the wrong date?
You have Steinhoff making two claims 24 Sep 1944, but no further details.
A sloppy digit 4 can easily be read as a digit 9 (or in fact vice versa!)
Steinhoff's final claim with JG 77 was, as per your book, on the 25th and in the Klausenberg area.
If we then look at what Christian quote for the 29th he says specifically from Piscolt to Klausenberg, which to me indicates a transfer flight,
perhaps combined with a mission itself.
That also indicates, unless Stab JG 77 were flying back and forth, the two claims on the 29th actually are those from the 24th. When making his
final JG 77 claim on the 25th, he was already in the Klausenberg area.
More worrying seems to be "official" data does not correspond to the Microfilmed data. I know far too little about how each was made to have any
opinion on that, but I don't like it. They should correspond....
Cheers
Stig
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