Re: MACR 3005 - German AA Reports
Nearly all of the 22,070 folders of NARA RG 242/T-1033 Luftgau Downed Enemy Aircraft Reports (KU, ME, KSU, USA, J, AV, RUS, KE, KEA, KSE, etc.) contain typed German ground and air eyewitness reports, Flak battery claims, fighter pilot claims, etc., some translated into English but most not. The folders also contain U.S. aircrew personal items, e.g., dog tags, driver's licenses, family photos, girlfriend photos and what have you. Some of the folders are thick, some have only a few pages. The OPR for each report was the Fliegerhorstkommandantur charged with investigating the crash site. These folders were seized by the Allies after to war and not returned to Germany.
The above has been covered in detail a good 3 or 4 times here on TOCH! and several times over on Richard Egert's LWAG web site.
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