Recent content by Tim

So claims made after Nov 1944 are not officially confirmed, and we just have to take the claimant's word of honour? Was anyone assuring the reliabililty of these claims - e.g. Gruppe commander, Staffel commander, etc., or was the situation so chaotic by then that even this was not possible...

Please pardon my ignorance - if I understand, you are saying that the basic documentation to reconcile Luftwaffe claims and British losses is available in the German Freiburg and British Public Records Office archives. Are you also saying that nobody to your knowledge has published an honest...

Are there any books or sites that authoriatatively attempt to reconcile the claims of one side with the losses of another? This is a fascinating discussion of special interest to me these days. Like others here I accepted the integrity of the OKL claims verification protocol, but at least in...