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Originally Posted by Nick Beale
If you mean that there are a couple of pages missing, I think you're right. I have a microfilm copy of the 1945 reel (from before dvd was invented) but someone who had been to BA-MA sent me photocopies of two pages the IWM must have missed.
If you mean that there are no daily reports for January, a lot of March and all of April and May, then I don't think anyone has those. The reporting system in the West seems to have faltered once the Allies got across the Rhein. The separate Luftflotte 6 material (in the USA?) does have good loss data for most of 1945 but just for that Luftflotte.
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Hi Nick,
my impression is that fragments of loss lists from more than one source survived (which is confirmed from the ADI Captured docs lists). I have compared copies from the IWM microfilm with copies (for the same dates) from a NARA microfilm (T-321 Roll 210 OKL-402), and the reports are different copies.
As to 1945, the IWM mf is missing surviving reports (at the BA/MA) for 28 & 30 Jan, 1-9 February, and the report for 13 February.
Cheers
Rod
PS - 'was recently at TNA and managed to fully photograph all of the HW 5 report sections between late Dec '44-May '45