Flt Lt Guy Pease, 268 Sq, Mustang pilot, PoW

[DavidIsby]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/g...uary-5mxf3n8jh

https://www.smh.com.au/national/war-...25-p5cfe7.html

https://wartimememoriesproject.com/w...php?uid=243448

[Chris Goss]

Both he and Mell appear to have been shot down by Fw Siegfried Lemke and Uffz Heinrich Gawenat of 1./JG 2

[Col Ford]

Originally Posted by Chris Goss

Both he and Mell appear to have been shot down by Fw Siegfried Lemke and Uffz Heinrich Gawenat of 1./JG 2

Pease and Mell, the available Luftwaffe records and those for 1./JG 2 indicate:


26.09.43 Fw. Siegfried Lemke 1./JG 2 Mustang I £ TC-7.3: 0-5 m. [Elbeuf 060° S.E. Rouen] 12.48 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr. -


26.09.43 Uffz. Wilhelm Peukert 1./JG 2 Mustang I £ TC-5: 0-5 m. [S. St. Étienne-du-Rouvray] 12.50 Film C. 2031/II Anerk: Nr. -


Based off the crash sites, Pease was shot down by Lemke and Mell by Peukert.



No other claims for Mustangs by 1. /JG 2 that day.

[Chris Goss]

Jochen Prien states that it was Gawenat's first victory and his second was 31 Dec 43 so we have a disagreement on the name unless Peukert came from Tony Wood's listing?


http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showth...hlight=Gawenat

[Col Ford]

Back when I was trying to track down the details from the Luftwaffe side many years ago, Tony Wood was one of the primary sources as well as a couple of researchers/authors active back then in early 2000's on JG2 and Luftwaffe claims cross-referencing. One of them sent me a print out - like from an old fax machine from the microfilm reader - from the microfilm copy of the Luftwaffe records he was working from which showed the claims for that day - which tallied with what Tony had. That was the basis for what I have. The discussion thread you linked to dates from a later timeframe, so may be indicative of later research using different sources. So could be Gawenat or Peukert based on the different research and sources.