[tcolvin]

Your film is remarkable.
I have a question and, if you want them, a few comments.
1. Why is Knoke's airfield in the mountains? Surely he was flying out of Jever in Friesland, which is flat.
2. Knoke's problem with bombing the bombers, and why it was discontinued, was that it turned the Me-109 into a dog which took for ever to climb to altitude, and made it defenceless.
3. Attached is a sketch from the RAF Flying Review of August 1953 showing Knoke bombing B24s. Although he never claimed a B24 by bombing, as your film correctly states, Knoke would surely have OK'd this rendering as accurate.
4. The problem with Knoke's rockets, as IL-2 and Typhoon pilots also discovered, was inaccuracy due to gravity drop and the reason why the weapon was abandoned. Showing this effect might add interest to your film.
5. The other attached photograph shows how Knoke and his Staffel actually dressed.
6. Do you or anyone know whether Knoke himself was the driver for all of this low-tech experimentation in how to counter daylight bombers? The LW was, of course, at that time developing high-tech solutions like the ground-launched Wasserfall rocket and Komet rocket aircraft.
7. Knoke became quite a character in Schortens and Jever after the war, working for a brewery and getting elected as a local councillor.

Tony