[Andreas Brekken]

Hi, Franek

There are daily flying logs for German units, on several levels (airfield logs, unit KTB's, commanding units KTB's, liason officer operations listings etc etc etc). The problem is that a vast amount of this documentation was lost during the war, and that (probably) a vast amount of it is still misplaced or misfiled in different archives both in Germany and in the allied occupying forces home countries.

In addition, a lot of files were both destructed (the Luftwaffe seems to have been better at this than especially the Kriegsmarine) close to the end of the war, while other files were simply destroyed due to enemy action (during the air raid I mentioned before, when a storage facility of the war history department was hit by bombs, this basement that was partially destroyed, contained amongst other items: 20000+ files form Legion Condor, 87000+ files from operational units).

Look at the WASt files for JG 5, several of them have burned edges due to the fact that these files were damaged due to bomb inflicted fires.

I think we should come to some kind of consensus on this, and accept that we have documents that are as good as they possibly could be given the circumstances, and try not to hammer each other on the head in a political battle, but rather try to clear any discrepancies by providing documentation for each other in thos cases.

Regards,
Andreas B