FW-190 A-6, April 13th 1944

[Horst Weber]

Originally Posted by Stig Jarlevik

Horst

If you check Caldwell's JG 26 War Diary vol 2 on page 246 and 533 and look at Uffz Dehsbesell, he stated WNr 470236 and brown 7.

Just curious on which pages you have been looking...., or do you refer to some other book by Caldwell?

Cheers
Stig

Hi Stig !

Those information are the primary sources, available in Germany for researches like that.

The "Namentliche Verlustmeldungen (NVLM)" of the Deutsche Dienststelle in Berlin, complete about 95% of all German personnel losses.

The second primary source for Luftwaffe losses are "Generalquartiermachermeistermeldungen Abteilung 6", which covered all Luftwaffe material losses. Unfortunately, those are incomplete and missing from beginning of 1944 up to Jan. 1945.

All serious authors used those sources for their books, Caldwell as well. But by writing books, mistakes can happen by various reasons, like misspelling, count-revolving or bad legibility.

Now I received new information about the Dehsbesell case. Unfortunately, I'm not in the possession of his NVLM. Ordering it is not so easy in Germany as before by data-safty purposes. So you try the easy way and ask people you know, who are possible in in the possession of the primary file.

When a conformation from anybody in the possession of Dehsbesell's NVLM comes, that his a/c was "yellow 7", everything is clear, Caldwell was right and I have to move to the second trace, according my new information.

Horst Weber