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Originally Posted by John Beaman
Like Nick, I have some a/c w/o names, but they all seem to have been captured during the race across France in 1944. The only listed POW I have is:
Bf 109G-6, 412421, Cöster, Uffz. Walter, 1./JGr.200, gelbe 12 +, 14-Jul-44, POW after Luftkampf with U.S. bombers.,Frappé, La LW face au débarquement allié, p.284, 323, Chateauneuf-de-Galaure 30km nördlich Romans.
The name is not even close and note that it says after fight with US Bombers. Frappé does not list his source, but he is normally very reliable. Other losses with names are listed as MIA or KIA. Are you certain about the name and POW status?
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1. I take Frappé's source to be
Namentliche Verlustmeldungen. I have a JG 200 loss list which J. Richard Smith dug out for me years ago and which I presume to have been compiled from the same source by a German researcher (it's in German). Against Cöster's name is a hand written note "Banden P__, zurück" ("Gangs … back"). Can't read the middle word but the implication is that he came down in a Resistance-held area but later returned to his unit.
2. I'm sure about Walter Lang's survival: his two interrogation reports that I have are a bit of a clue (unless the Allies conducted a séance, of course!).