[Johannes]

Hi Guys

I am the Mathews from Foreman/Mathews. John Foreman visited Hans Ring at his home. Said he was very obliging, would just throw abschüßeliste and Leistungsbücher at him. I questioned John about Nonnenmacher, John informed me that Nonnenmacher was a civilian, I attributed the fact I could find only one claim on the mikrofilms to that, but as you say, could be his abschüßlist was doctored, not sure by whom though.

With Woidich it seems Ring added twenty-eight onto his abschüßlist, but these twenty-eight stand-out. Woidich was an honest claimer, never claiming many in a day, then suddenly it's large numbers and of types he didn't usually get. I told Bernd Barbas they must have been unconfirmed(perhaps because JG 52 was constantly moving at the time) but no they are just false. But here again we have always accepted a total of 110 for him. John always says that once something is printed "It's fact", then plagiarised time and again to it's hard to established where the mistake comes from. Bernd had planned to meet Woidich, but Woidich was ill and cancelled, and died before they could make another date, Woidich didn't attend the JG 52 memorials and died possibly not knowing he was a "110" ace. His personal abschüßlist has just the eight-two.

John gave me a huge listing of 1945 claims(presumably from Ring) which is a time period not covered by the mikrofilms, I suspect most of the fake data in the night-fighter book comes from this, or very early claims as many of the Staffeln typed-out mikrofilms are missing.

I still occasional identify a name from the mikrofilms that I previously hadn't, not many left now. Strangely though some NJG pilot I have yet to identify are of rank that means they should be at least Staffelkapitän !

Kind Regards

Johannes