[Johannes]

Hi

I think Ostpreussen was under the direct command of JG51 i.e part of it.. Where ever he served after being wounded in May 1943(just in the hand) the mikrofilms should have picked-up any claims. As stated before there is evidence he later flew with IV./JG51, this evidence being he was mentioned in a IV./JG51 pilots flugbuch(Arensmeyer). I would say he was likely to have claims a few more Russian aircraft. It looks like perhaps he got 43, and a mis-type made it 143

Actually thinking about it JG51 in the East made very, very few claims over U.S aircraft, and the amount quoted for Tanzer is more than everybody else put together............it just cannot be, no matter how specific the numbers are !

Kind Regards

Johannes