Western victories of Assi Hahn

[Tom Semenza]

Jan,

Crandell's book on Hahn lists his first 66 claims with JG 2 in the West. However it gets a little more confusing when you look at the claims listed in Prien's Jagdfliegerverbände der Luftwaffe series. In Teil 4/I the claim for 6.11.40 is incorrectly listed as his 21st, however this is corrected in the appendix of Teil 4/II to claim number 22. Yet in Teil 7, his next claim on 24.06.41 is again listed as number 22 with subsequent claims being numbered from that in sequence, so that the last claim with III./JG 2 on 16.09.42 is numbered 65. So by this numbering Hahn claimed nos. 60 and 61 on 6.05.42, which fits nicely with the 61 victory bars on his Fw 190A. However that leaves us with two claims listed as no. 22 and no explanation for the numbering irregularity. Perhaps Dr. Prien can enlighten us here.

Regards,
Tom