What is the "Holy Grail" of Luftwaffe Research

[Marc-André Haldimann]

Rémi, I totally follow in your steps ! Except maybe we could have 500 color slides instead of 100 ? And three more "LO+ST" sequels

As for the quality of those color shots, well, akin to the one I chanced on yesterday:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/280920...in/dateposted/

Cheers
Marc

[Nick Beale]

The 1944 loss returns, already mentioned, are the main thing. However, I would really like to find the Allied daily Mediterranean signals intelligence reports for March 1944 to help with my research on I./JG 2 in Italy. There is a file of these reports starting in June 1944 year, while the RAF 276 Wing Record Books include only the reports for the first day of earlier months including March. It is very frustrating to have the report for 1st March and to know that the other 30 once existed but be unable to find them!

Photos: I agree, more operational Ta 152s; reconnaissance Me 262s with the T9+_H marking; an TGr. 30 He 111 in one of the "Atlantic Fortresses"; a JGr. 200 photo album; NSG 2 aircraft in the west with their markings clearly visible; NSG 20 aircraft ditto.

More realistically, the Bletchley Park Museum has been engaged in a long-term project to digitise 3 million pages of documents — the sooner they complete that job, the better as far as I'm concerned.

[GrafWolf]

Dear Nick!

Here is a picture He 111 from TGr. 30!
It was taken in 1947 on Airfield Reichenbach.
Maybe someone can help me with pictures of the crew
from Ju 252 1./TGr. 30 which was lost on 04.04.1945 near
Reichenbach?
Ofw. Otto Liesche FF
Ofw. Hugo Vorwerk BM
Fw. Josef Kenzian BF
Lt. Heinrich Meininghaus BB
Ofw. Philipp Merle BF

Herzliche Grüsse aus Oberschwaben,

Wolfgang

[Larry deZeng]

N.B. wrote in part:

More realistically, the Bletchley Park Museum has been engaged in a long-term project to digitise 3 million pages of documents — the sooner they complete that job, the better as far as I'm concerned.

Does B.P. have a target date for completion? Any idea how far along they are? Will the output be viewable online or only through the purchase of DVDs/CDs?

L.

[Nick Beale]

I contacted Bletchley in 2011 about this and followed in April 2013.

Their reply the first time was: "Regarding the digitisation of the Bletchley Park Archive: HP [Hewlett Packard] very kindly donated a number of scanners and computers to Bletchley Park Trust in order for this digitisation process to occur and we are currently in the process of undertaking work on the accessioning and cataloguing backlog in order to utilise this equipment effectively and link records and images. I am not sure when the first batches will become 'live' however."

On the second occasion: "This project is still in the infancy."

[Larry deZeng]

Thanks.

It sounds like it's way too far down the road for people my age to be concerned about.

L.

[Hans Mcilveen]

Originally Posted by Nick Beale

an TGr. 30 He 111 in one of the "Atlantic Fortresses"

Hi Nick,

One of my favorite subjects as well.

FWIW, I found this photograph in the book Absturz im Kinzigtal: Die Luftfahrt im hessischen Kinzigtal von 1895 bis 1950. I have no idea if the caption is correct. I could not find an airport named 'Yael" either. There are some photographs of He 111 wrecks at Royan in Avions 132.

Hans

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Hans Mcilveen

Hi Nick,

There are some photographs of He 111 wrecks at Royan in Avions 132.

Hans

Sadly that issue is no longer available from Lela Presse!

[Von Alles]

Holy Grail ? Hum, Tempest & Lancaster under german colors ? Operational Ta152C of Bf109H...

[Broncazonk]

Are there private collections of Luftwaffe photographs that are known to exist, but they are kept so private and exclusive that nobody gets to see them? You know, like the super-secret art collections in secret rooms that reclusive billionaires like to own?

Also, how much is left to discover? Is there a treasure trove of photos and documents literally waiting to be discovered--in the attics of Germany and the US, or in government warehouses in the US or UK?

Bronc