Hello Christian
Pleased to have helped you - pity you don't know the units involved on the Luftwaffe side, maybe if not returning from a night "nuisance" raid they were from a training unit in the Wittenburg/Schwerin area?
The 125 Wing ORB refers to
"....4 Bucker 131's at 06.15 hours.." so whilst I apologise for the typo in adding an "n" to Bucker I have no idea as to whether it was actually 4, or 5 as in the 130 report.
And, as I wasn't there, I have no idea whether it was at 06.05 or 06.15 and whether they were actually biplanes 131's or monoplane 181's, and I don't have the combat reports (unfortunately)
The actual 130 Squadron ORB record is as follows;
"......At 05.45 hours, 5 of our aircraft took off to patrol Wittenburg. At 06.05 hours, 5 Bu 131's were sighted flying at zero feet near Schwerin Lake, and these were duly attacked by F/O Lord and F/Sgt Woodman the former destroying 2 and the latter 1; a fourth was also destroyed (shared)....." so Thomas & Shores correctly reported what was in the squadron ORB, but absolutely no mention is made of what happened to the 5th one, if it existed??!!
I am presuming that it was a typo, and 4 was correctly submitted to the 125 Wing scribe verbally for his precis of the day's Wing operations as I am sure somebody senior would have asked what happened to no. 5?
If you need any more information about 125 Wing's activities at that time feel free to drop me an e-mail at allan(dot)hillman(at)btinternet(dot)com.
cheers
Allan
p.s. no apology needed
"Sorry, I´m German..." as your written English is better than my German!!
