Is there any evidence the 1944 losses were ever captured?

[John Vasco]

If I may add something to this thread.

Whereas the Quartermaster returns for 1944 have still not been found, there is another resource that could provide a lot of information. However, the caveat is that nowadays it might be almost impossible to see the things, never mind getting the information from them.

That resource is the Namentliche Verlustmeldungen. In 1940, a lot did not give any details of aircraft type flown, fuselage code, W. Nr.. However, as the months progressed into years, that information was included in them. Being able to obtain a full set of them for SKG 210/ZG 1 enabled me to compile the loss/damage tables for my book 'Sting of the Luftwaffe' fairly accurately.

Over the decades, the Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt) became more and more guarded about the contents of these loss returns, and as far as I know, they will now only divulge information to close relatives.

What WOULD be brilliant would be if the WASt were to put together a voluntary team to go through the 1944 NVM and provided the information covering unit, date, aircraft type, W. Nr., fuselage code, crew (ranks and fate) in a simple format. I'm pretty sure that information is there at that source, but bringing it out in the manner I suggest is, I think, never going to happen...