Is there any evidence the 1944 losses were ever captured?

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There are German historical groups that may have some information. I think the US Navy is a good possible candidate. The word Navy tends to turn the mind away from anything aviation related. However, I would point out that the Office of Naval Intelligence was collecting a good deal of material during the war, which included activities on land. I will add them to my current list of suspects.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, various documents related to the German and Soviet war effort came out of hiding. Around 1995, closely held information about Soviet war production was released. Some war crimes people requested documents from the former OSS. The CIA did everything it could to not release them. Nearly 90,000 pages were reluctantly declassified.

Back to the subject. A book is coming out about the Blohm & Voss BV 155. Apparently, an example was sitting in the US in "deep storage" and somehow the author was able to get a few photos. Deep storage? For what? So the public, or perhaps the Russians, could not get a peek? Another example of how things can get put away - as if they never existed.

Ed