Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain

[edwest2]

Thank you John.

I frequented author message boards for a while. Too often, they were looking for free legal advice, which I cannot give. I've decided to stop. Too many writers think paying for legal advice is too expensive, but too many never look into it.

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by John Vasco

It concerned the combat on 16th August 1940, when Nicholson of 249 Squadron was shot down badly burned. His citation for the Victoria Cross mentioned his shooting down of a Bf 110 … Peter and I spent several weeks (I would say running into months) discussing this, and working on a form of words (amended many times) before we agreed on the final text that would not leave us open to litigation from relatives.

I know the problem and have used something on the lines of, “… but the author has been unable to any German record of a corresponding loss”.

[John Vasco]

Originally Posted by Nick Beale

I know the problem and have used something on the lines of, “… but the author has been unable to any German record of a corresponding loss”.

Things have eased somewhat on the issue I mentioned, with the relative part of the Luftflotte 3 KTB becoming available to confirm what we had known, and the additional information in the 'Battle of Britain Combat Archive' series, which shows the combat was exclusively with II./JG 53 Bf 109s.

[Chris Goss]

...and only Hptm Heinz Bretnütz of 6./JG 53 claimed two Hurricanes one immediately after the other in that general location and at the right time during this encounter..........