Number of Luftwaffe sorties flown 22 June 1941

[Mirek Wawrzynski]

I understand from your post that if one is to be able to match information from both sides one have to very carefully research the movements and organizational changes in order to research information on the individual units in the area.

Yes, very carefull. There were 4 levels of making such documents: basic - regimental for example in 123. IAP, second - divisional - in 10. SAD, third - army level - 4. Army (air command), and the last one - Western Front - air command. On each stage could be done some errors, cuts, misinterpretation, type errors ect.

Yes it is, but it is no so stright, simple and nice, :-)
Due to the total lost of communication among all levels in the first days of Barbarossa it was a huge total mass on Western Front in each air command level's posts. None one exacly had know where were higher or lower command post (and units) and did not gathered any real (true value) information or orders. Many documents from the first level were lost or destoryed and were later "rewritten" according orders to have such general information including all losses, but it was not done according daily regimental diary (hour by hour) of combats reports from regimelntal level, which were mostly lost, a few exist (like for 127. IAP but not for whole 9. SAD and its 5 regiments).

Regards,
mirekw