Gunther Specht's after action reports;

[NickM]

Guys:

Rereading Don & Richard's 'Luftwaffe over Germany' & a new comment stood out RE: Gunther Specht wrote insightful & informative after action reports for each mission he flew with II/JG11(I THINK it was that gruppe) against the 8th AAF; so I have two questions:

Do these report still exist-hopefully translations in English;

and

Did any other Grkdr (Baer, Hackl, Priller etc) prolifically write the same sort of reports in any quantity?

Thx

NM

[NickM]

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[NickM]

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[Don Caldwell]

Hello Nick --

I'm sure other GrKdre wrote after-action reports if they were required, but these seem to be among the 95+% of Luftwaffe documents that did not survive the bonfires. There are a few in private hands, but there's no complete collection of them anywhere, and they certainly aren't in English. I have a few more of Specht's (auf englisch) in my new book, Day Fighters in Defence of the Reich: A War Diary, 1942-45, which has survived copy editing and is in the layout stage at Frontline Books. I expect it to be available this summer.

Horrido!

Don

[NickM]

Thanks Don;

The news of the new book is AWESOME...I'll be looking for it.

NM

[kb]

Jochen Prien lists some of Specht's AARs in his JG1/JG11 unit history. With iGoogle its not that hard to read in English.