Luftwaffe Aircraft Loss Reports?

[RodM]

Hi Larry and Rabe,

thanks for the additional info.

Among the problems are trying to discover the source of the documents (for the collection may or may not have been the accumulation of documents captured from various sources at differing locations), the exact extent and scope of the documentation, and exactly what and how much was distributed to whom.

As previously mentioned, the documentation still in British hands largely remains classified, and the MoD has been keeping pretty mum on the subject. The RAF AHB have stated that the actual surviving Luftgaukommando crash reports are probably incorporated within the individual MRES Casualty Investigation files, while the reports that could not be linked to a specific loss have reputedly been destroyed. As to the interrogation reports (a) I don't know what percentage the reports found in AIR 40 at TNA constitute of the total captured reports, or (b) where the reports relating to American PoWs are and whether they still classified.

As an addition to Rabe's comments on the microfiche, the subscription website Footnote.com, which is contracted to digitise a lot of NARA records, has available all the individual pages of the index in JPEG form, along with all the MACR reports.

Cheers

Rod