[Andreas Brekken]

Hi, Eric

I./JG 2 lost one aircraft on June 7th, the pilot, an officer, reported as missing, thus a Namentliche Verlustemeldung exist which would give You all details needed to establish if this is the aircraft You are looking for info on.

JG 2 is not my special interest, and I have not yet started the NVM work on this unit, but I am sure other participants on the board have!

I./JG 26 lost a total of 9! aircraft on this date. 3 listed as missing, thus the same apply to these. 1 were lost to Flak, total loss, while 2 were destroyed and 1 damaged by strafing. The last two were damaged in accidents, thus there were less than 50% damage on these (typically landing or take-off accidents)

There is a discrepancy between the number of aircraft listed as missing, and the number of pilots lost, (3 vs 2) which would indicate that one of the pilots later returned to the unit and were stricken from the loss records...

My best bet to resolve this would be to establish contact with JG 2 and JG 26 scholars - there should be some on this board, or contact the WASt for NVM's for the pilots lost by these units on this date.

Regards,
Andreas