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Originally Posted by Peter Cornwell
As you know, I already have your book The Lost Hopes and, indeed, have recommended it to others on this website though I confess that I have failed to take full account of its content on occasion. Despite the retrospective nature of the evidence, from all that has been said it now seems that Nowakiewicz could be added to those GCII/7 pilots involved with the Do17s of KG77 on June 15, 1940.
One small point, you are wrong to say that von Stutterheim's Dornier was the only one to fall in the area at the time, for Fw Schweiger's aircraft also came down '30 km NW of Neufchateau' during this action. However, it was clearly not that attacked by Mumler & Co. as its crew all remained on board.
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Peter, nice to heard your words about "The Lost Hopes" but the book was published 8 years ago and I know it needs a lot of corrects. Therefore I'm preparing a new version of this book which will more than 2 times longer but I'm afraid it will publish in Polish only.
Polish documents usually were wrote after coming to England and most of them were memories based on
Carnet Idividuel of the pilot. Therefore historian who based on this documents have to be very carefull. In fact "The Lost Hopes" was a sample of showing Polish point of view of Polish effort in French Campaign. Therefore there were not too much comperings with French and German sources.
You are right about losses of KG 77 near Neufchateau. My last post I wrote at work and I used my memory only. I'm at home now and I can check documents so I can say: my memory isn't so good as I was sure before
Regards,
Greg