[Horst Weber]

Good evening Steve !

These are the good, old U. S. National Archives catalogues of air crashes, arranged day-by-day. Their origin were the German reports of Allied air crashes, which were collected and filed by the Interrogation Center West of the Luftwaffe in Oberursel, Germany, called Durchgangslager West (DuLag Luft West).

Each case there received a file-number:
- KE: Kampfflugzeg, englisch (British Bomber)
- KU: Kampfflugzeug, USA (U.S. Bomber)
- J : Jäger (Fighter, obviously no difference between U.S. or UK)
- ME: most likely Mittelländischer Einsatzraum (Mediteranian)
- AV: Amerikaner, Vorgänge (a case, where U.S. KIA were involved)

Those files were stored at the DuLag Luft West at the end of the war. Since Oberursel was in the American Zone, the Americans had the first grip to those files. They shipped them to the USA for evaluation purposes, to find KIA and MIA crew members. Here, a catalogue of the existing and found files with the finding numbers was compiled and printed.

After the de-classification of the files, the catalogue was microfilmed and offered to the public. The files itself are stored in the U.S. National Archives and are available, if you know the number of your case.

This finding aid RG 242 is available in micrfiche form as well as in printed form. In my possession is a printed form, which has much more "footnotes" on the paper to several cases like MACR-numbers, serial-numbers eg.

For more infos, send me a PN, please.

All the best !

Horst Weber