Losses of german nightfighters - night 19/20 February 1943

[Marcel Hogenhuis]

Hello Stig,

I will check the date in the Namentliche Verlustmeldung but I am pretty confident that it is correct, because the entry in my database is backed up with 3 sources for this crash:

Primary source 1: copy of the Namentliche Verlustmeldung of the WASt Berlin

Primary source 2: copied data of the Gen. Qm. Abt.6 loss lists, microfilm reel 8 of the IWM Miscelaneous collection

Secondary source: Verlusten bei den Nachtjagdgeschwader, Gemeinschaft der Jagdflieger, compilation of H.Höhler (who typed out the handwritten loss lists of Winfried Bock who copied it... from the Namentliche Verlustmeldungen!
In the early days of my research I had no copies of the NVM's and Balss wasn't even dreaming about publishing NJG losses in the next 10 years. Therefore, Höhlers compilation was my first and single source for NJG losses.
As it later turned out: Winfried's handwritten 9 looks like an 8 and have been misread by Höhler > thus resulting in many erronous Werkenummer and dates, which no sooner could be corrected unless I finally got copies of the NVM's of the NJG's myself.

All the best, Marcel