Flugbuch Fw. Emil Handt, BF I./NJG3 late 1944-1945 -genuine or false?

[John Manrho]

Altered Flugbücher are unfortunately a fact were we as historians need to deal with. I have seen several. Things that I have seen;

1) Altering details to fancy the Flugbuch......adding a flight with a Me 262 as it is 100% confirmed he flew a Fw 190 on that specific day

2) Also common is adding flights at the end, especially when their last Flugbuch was lost. Sometimes done as good as possible from memory, but sometimes also blatantly exaggerated with far too many Feindflüge, combats and victories....

This was all done by the original owners...

I did not encounter a complete fabricated or falsified Flugbuch yet, but that could be attractive to some people to make a financial gain....I assume this was not done by the "owner" themselves