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Old 3rd April 2017, 08:08
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Re: Top ace of the calendar year

Hi Guys

Regarding Scheel firstly I could find only seventy confirmations for him. Regarding the biggest day of 3rd November 1943, forty-four confirmations in the East for the Luftwaffe, of which thirty-four were for JG 54, of which twenty-nine for Lang's 5th Staffel.

Mikrofilm has a clearly written sub-section for JG 51 & JG 54. Lang's claims were:-

0931 hrs Il-2 1000 metres Nr.1
0932 hrs Il-2 200 metres Nr.2
0933 hrs Il-2 100 metres Nr.3
0935 hrs Jak-7 50 metres Nr.4
0936 hrs Il-2 100 metres Nr.5
0940 hrs Jak-7 100 metres Nr.6
0942 hrs Jak-7 50 metres Nr.7

1300 hrs Lavochkin-5 2500 metres Nr.8

1415 hrs Il-2 1000 metres Nr.9
1416 hrs Il-2 800 metres Nr.10
1420 hrs Lavochkin-5 800 metres Nr.11
1422 hrs Lavochkin-5 1000 metres Nr.12
1423 hrs Il-2 600 metres Nr.13
1445 hrs Jak-9 1500 metres Nr.14
1446 hrs Jak-9 1500 metres Nr.15
1448 hrs Il-2 1000 metres Nr.16
1449 hrs Il-2 1200 metres Nr.17

Norbert Hannig mentions the day in some detail in his autobiography, but it doesn't match-up. Perhaps there was also one unconfirmed claim. If I was to guess who the enabler was for his overclaiming I would have generally said Alfred Groß, however looking at this day I would say Reinhold Hoffmann, but maybe the whole staffel, maybe the whole Gruppe. But not nice to label them all the same........innocent until proven guilty!

Kind Regards

Johannes
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