[Don Caldwell]

There are probably more efficient ways to use this forum, but my recent Me 262 question was answered amazingly quickly, so I'll take the same approach here. I have the Me 210/Me410 book, and spent way more time with it than I should have. As most of you know, I'm piecing together a daily RLV chronology or "War Diary" and hoped to use the dates in the WNr list to help flesh out my loss list. As Peter Kassak and others have pointed out, these dates bear no consistent relationship to the true date of loss. I conclude that these are "writeoff" dates, and thus come later than the true loss dates, but don't follow any pattern. IMHO the book is of use only to Werknummer, Stammkennzeichen, and photo fans. It has next to nothing on operations (as should be apparent from the title), but it appears that an opportunity was missed to present Petrick's painstakingly-collected data in a way that would have more value. If anyone from ex-Classic reads this, was a column or two (maybe Heimflug/Feindflug) dropped from the table as supplied? And Peter Kassak -- were you able to reach Petrick and resolve anything? (a "complete" searchable DB file would be a great gift to folks who purchased the book!)

Horrido!

Don