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Old 17 April 2002, 03:30 AM #20 (permalink)
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The weekly Kofl 6 Armee German reports covering Bishop's section of the front during 1917 are in the Ferko Collection in Dallas. Anybody can order copies.
Which is all fine and dandy, except, the airfield(s) in question are in 2 Armee area. In either event, the Nachrichtenblatt report that denied Bishop made the raid had at least TWO items wrong. First, according to the report, he didn't make the raid as claimed on 7 June, 1917. And they also doubted his claim for FOUR aircraft shot down.

This is ok though, since his dawn raid was on 2 June, 1917, not 7 June. And he claimed THREE aircraft shot down, not four.

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