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Re: Did pilots fly on time differences in Europe??
Recently, I was faced with the same problem, when trying to match various claims and losses on the Southern Sector of the Eastern Front (Bessarabia) in mid-1941.
There were three different nations participanting in those combats (Soviet, German and Rumanian), and all three nation's time zones is different. I decided to synchronize the times found in various documents to match the local time where the combats took place, i.e. Eastern European Time (GMT+2).
I was told that the Germans stationed in Rumania did use local time in their reports, so those times German documents referring to needed no synchronizing; however, Soviet crews did fly according to Moscow's time (GMT+3), so the Soviet reports needed to be synchronized, i.e. one hour needed to be deducted.
Can anyone confirm, or infirm, if the above is correct?
It's a very important, and often overlooked, detail when trying to properly and accurately reconstruct those historical events.
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