Combat Report Forgeries

[Peter Cornwell]

Andy,

I do not hold copies of these Combat Reports, but detailed notes that I transcribed during personal inspection of the originals when still held by the AHB over 30 years ago (I am older than God's dog) - long before they were released into the public domain to be plundered so enthusiastically. These notes conform exactly with both content & wording of the ROGOWSKI document for September 2, 1940.

However, quite apart from the absence of any AHB accession number usually pencilled in the top right corner, I note several differences with the FRANTISZEK version that I suspect could be significant ? My notes read as follows: 'G2 P3975 FRANTISZEK chased 109 towards France. 109 firing @ HENNEBERG smoking. Crashed in sea 2 - 3 km out.' That is all I extracted from FRANTISZEK's original Combat Report as filed at AHB and while it is entirely possible that I may have omitted to note details of the elevator and dinghy for sake of brevity, I certainly did not imagine the HENNEBERG reference nor the fact that he was flying as Green 2 and not Green 3. So, it would appear, I inspected an entirely different document.