Gen.Mjr.Wolf Von Stutterheim KG77

[robert]

This first hand source is rather confusing. Muemler and Nowakiewicz could not destroy these at least three Do 17 alone (stab/KG77, 5./KG77 and 1./KG77, III./KG3 is questionable). Lt. Rudolf Gaude ( BO from stab/KG77 plane) recalls that he was attacked while on chute by two fighters, Josef Schwaiger from 5./KG77`s plane claims to be attacked by three French fighters, and the same formation was attacked also by GCII/2, which flown this mission together with GCII/7. Officialy there is no victory Muemler-Nowakiewicz and the reliabity of Nowakiewicz`s report is also questionable (he was not credited with individuall victory, didn`t follow his victim through whole action and Muemler is also writing something different). It`s strange that according to Polish sources out of formation of several pilots only Nowakiewicz and Muemler should engage the enemy bombers and the rest of fighters should be waiting for something? I think that actually many pilots fired at this German bombers and thus there were not individual victories. Gillet repeated this in his book because he used official French records and unit`s histories.
BTW Jiri Rajlich in his books claims that stab./KG77`s plane fell victim rather to GCII/2.

Robert