Luftwaffe Fighter Claims - 27 July 1940

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by John Vasco

It's just that they looked identical to the entries in the Luftflotte 3 KTB.

Might it be the case that that archive actually hold the information for Luftflotte 2 for the Battle of Britain?

I would suspect not since the sitreps they do hold have a ticket on the front of each one stamped with “Wien” and a date, which would explain how the USSR got them — probably captured in Vienna in April 1945. The circulation list at the end of each (210 recipients — their stated total, I’m not so sad as to count them all) includes Luftlottenkommandos 1, 2, 3 4 & 5, so I’d guess that these reports were an overview of operations for general consumption by Luftwaffe HQ’s and RLM departments. Do the Lfl. 3 reports have as wide a circulation? There’s no reason to suppose that Lfl. 2 would have differed greatly from other Luftflotten in the external bodies it sent copies to.

Just a though, how far would it be possible to reconstruct the Lfl. 2 sitreps by “subtracting” known Lfl. 3 and 5 operations from these daily reports and seeing what remained? (At this stage you could safely ignore the “Lage Süd” appendix detailing Italy’s successive triumphs in the Med, North Africa and the Balkans).

[Peter Cook]

Thanks all for getting, hopefully, to the resolution of this one!

Peter

[Chris Goss]

Peter: Maybe my latest book will help as you go on with your research (but knowing you you will have it already)

[Peter Cook]

Hi Chris, what is the title?

[Chris Goss]

Luftwaffe Aces in the Battle of Britain

[Peter Cook]

Yes, have that one!!!

[Chris Goss]

The bio of Von Aspern is included

[Peter Cook]

I was a bit hasty with my earlier reply, it was your book Knights of the Battle of Britain that I have -- just ordered Aces!

Peter