Claim for Spitfire near Canterbury 18 August 1940

[Andy Saunders]

Franek

Thank you for your input but I have no desire to enter into any confrontation between you and Robert. You have both been equally helpful.

As for your comment:

"If you look for an excuse for the Bader stir you caused, then I believe this is a wrong case, and there are more better ones."

My interest in Gruszka is not in the remotest way connected to Bader. I am not sure how you think it might be? My suggestion that friendly fire might have been involved in the Gruszka case was merely a suggestion that perhaps this was an angle worth examining and in that context I thought that Brian Cull might have some comment to make. In view of his interest in friendly fire I merely wonder if Brian has ever picked up anything, however tenuous, related to this case. However, to the best of my knowledge there is not a shred of evidence to link this to friendly fire although I am aware that local witnesses to the crash have suggested this. The fact that another Spitfire is said to have circled the crash site probably gave rise to this local rumour but, of itself, this reported observation does not prove or indicate anything.

You have jumped to a wholly incorrect conclusion relative to my interest in this incident and your supposition that it is, somehow, linked to my earlier interest in the Bader case.