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Originally Posted by Chris Goss
Just to calm this down. Lt Hans-Gunnar Culemann of 7./JG 27 claimed a Baltimore at 1225 hrs NW of Iraklion and then Lt Hans-Joachim Hayessen of the same Staffel got 2 Beaufighters in the region of Dia at 1320 and 1324 hrs. Jochen Prien makes no mention of any aircraft being lost or damaged in air combat on this date or any other date between 14 Dec 43 and 25 Feb 44 from III./JG 27
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Thanks Ed,
But doesn't mean there wasn't.
He just got no record ... which was quite usual with JG27, let's say a "trading mark" for this unit.
Last, but not the least, Prien did wrong like everyone sometimes - just sometimes - .. bad reading, bad interpretation, wrong tracks and/or clues. Bad veteran notes on photos back and/or remembering; all in all a lot of reasons ...
But with a good behavior though, he always took care of correcting and publishing bad or not complete information each time he got updates.
This said, thanks to him, he did and does a wonderful work.
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Doesn't mean he is "God", doesn't mean we are "angels", too
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A last word, even if Byron got a strong evidence, but not complete, no proof he is right though ... until further development; indeed.
Regards,
Franck.