Thanks Chris
First of all I seldom gets infuriated, and especially not now.
I know some guys on these pages would be the first to start WW 3 but I don't! I prefer to enjoy my day after a hard days work. I love to look at these pages and even sometimes contribute a word or two. Since I am no researcher I have little to contribute with as such, so there is no point in getting upset if someone else has a better idea than me.
I get your points Chris, but the way I read the initial text it seems to me like the bombers failed to turn correctly and just
maybe were heading south or south east instead of back to England. Before the escort could turn the bombers back on course for home, they might even had strayed over northern France. With this in mind, Metz was a big transit point for Blochs and large numbers were noted during April and May 1943, not too far away from where we are looking...
Again I
don't say I am right! You certainly could be correct Chris. All I am doing is to make a guess to make sense out of the basic report, that's all. As you say we have two options. Either the spotting at the time was faulty, or correct! If faulty, no big deal really? But if correct my guess at least fits the general discription of the Koolhoven, which was basically the point I tried to make.
I am
not requiring from you to have a detailed log of every Bloch fighter in Luftwaffe service with every flight stated where and when...
, but on the other if you do...
Cheers Old Boy
Stig