Hartmann: claims vs. victories

[Johannes]

Hi Guys

Regarding the end of the microfilm entries. You would think that they all end abruptly like JG5's entries, but I did compare them to abschüßeliste and found with some units like JG52 some days are missing in November/December 1944, and using the old Hartmann list some claims for some days, but I doubt if Hartmann's list in actually very accurate for 1945, his pre mikrofilms 1944 list differs quite a bit for a start, therefor I would actually expect his 1945 list to be no more accurate than his 1945 list.
constable/Tolliver also make like of Hartmann's seventy Il-2 claims, this is factually very far from the truth, in fact it was rare for Hartmann to claim anything other than Russian fighters.

JG5 were ordered to destroy their flugbucher by their Kommandeur, and in general the most likely way a flugbuch would survive is if the pilot was not on combat duty at the end of the war.

Kind regards

Johannes