BRUNNER, Josef, Feldwebel 2/NJG-1

[Johannes]

Hi David

Marcel has already covered the geographical descrepancies I was going to mention i.e Koblenz is 150km away from Hofstätten. There are several over pilots claiming around the same time, but Brunner seems the most likely, also a nightfighter at that time was restricted to a quadrant, so both claims would have been close together. There is almost a descrepancy over the altitude of the attack, your father states 16,000 feet, whereas Brunner gets his first at 5300 metres or about 17,400 feet, and the second at 3500 metres, thus Rod's theory about your fathers being the second claim would be at doubt, JB152 was caught before reaching the target, and with the few minutes time difference between the two claims I guess the same should be said for JA708.

Regards

Johannes

[Stig Jarlevik]

Johannes, Marcel, David

The main point in Rod's second answer is that he rules out Koblenz and instead insert Edenkoben. Edenkoben is much closer to Bad Dürkheim than Koblenz.

Rod
Since this is not what you (or rather Theo) say in your Nachjagd War Diaries vol 1, why have you changed your mind? Any new document that cancel out Koblenz or why is Edenkoben now on your list?

Cheers
Stig