[Johannes]

Hi Michel

Regarding Barkhorn, it was said that he "over-claimed" as he neared "300" victories. However our source beyond the mikrofilms was from Hans Ring. These were accepted as "fact", but Gabor has clear document evidence that this is not true. For whatever reason Ring added false information to Barkhorn's abschüßelist. Obviously Barkhorn was ignorant of the details of his last "kills", Ring might even have given Barkhorn these details and Barkhorn would have been oblivious to the deception !

Kind Regards

Johannes

P.S

Barkhorn was never one for claiming Il-2's, yet in this latter period after the mikrofilms ceased, with Ring's list he is claiming a much higher percentage of these difficult to "kill"
aircraft !