Ive been trying to find the intelligence reports on crashed Luftwaffe aircraft at The National Archives but my searching has not found anything. Can someone point me in the right direction please? Are they all together in one file etc? If so can anyone tell me the referance number or if they are separate what number they start at.
By: Arabella-Cox - 21st February 2013 at 07:23
If you have anything specific in mind, I have all of the 1940 reports and many of the later ones. Just ask! I may have it.
By: brewerjerry - 21st February 2013 at 02:48
Hi
A few files
Ministry of Aircraft Production and predecessor and successors: Registered Files. AIRCRAFT: GENERAL – Enemy (Code 5/3): Crashed enemy aircraft: examination reports.
Collection: Records created or inherited by the Ministry of Aviation and successors, the Air Registration Board, and related bodies
Date range: 01 January 1941 – 31 December 1943
Reference:AVIA 15/1295
Air Ministry, and Ministry of Defence: Papers accumulated by the Air Historical Branch. AIR WARFARE ANALYSIS SECTION. Crashes of enemy aircraft.
Collection: Records created or inherited by the Air Ministry, the Royal Air Force, and related bodies
Date range: 01 January 1942 – 31 December 1942
Reference:AIR 20/12958
Air Ministry and successors: Royal Aircraft Establishment (from 1988, Royal Aerospace Establishment): Registered Files. SUBJECT: RADIO. Landed or crashed enemy aircraft: examinations.
Collection: Records created or inherited by the Ministry of Aviation and successors, the Air Registration Board, and related bodies
Date range: 01 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
Reference:AVIA 13/1131
Air Ministry: Periodical Returns, Intelligence Summaries and Bulletins. Location of enemy aircraft brought down in U.K., Nos. 1-124.
Collection: Records created or inherited by the Air Ministry, the Royal Air Force, and related bodies
Date range: 01 August 1940 – 31 December 1940
Reference:AIR 22/266
Air Ministry: Periodical Returns, Intelligence Summaries and Bulletins. Location of enemy aircraft brought down in U.K., Nos. 125-229.
Collection: Records created or inherited by the Air Ministry, the Royal Air Force, and related bodies
Date range: 01 January 1941 – 30 June 1941
Reference:AIR 22/267
Crashed enemy aircraft reports: Nos. 154-270 (incomplete) Includes 4 photographs depicting: Crashed German aircraft on mainland Britain: debris and JU 88 aircraft. Dated 1942-1945. See also Air 40/1166. …
Collection: Records created or inherited by the Air Ministry, the Royal Air Force, and related bodies
Date range: 01 October 1942 – 31 May 1945
Reference:AIR 40/45
Air Ministry, Directorate of Intelligence and related bodies: Intelligence Reports and Papers. AIR INTELLIGENCE 2(g). Crashed enemy aircraft reports: Nos 236-269. See TNA webpage, ‘Security and Intelligence History, Your Guide to Resources’.
Collection: Records created or inherited by the Air Ministry, the Royal Air Force, and related bodies
Date range: 01 May 1944 – 31 May 1945
Reference:AIR 40/2858
the missing reports used to be found in the various aircraft type files
cheers
Jerry
By: ollieholmes - 21st February 2013 at 01:29
The ones I’ve used are in two different series within AIR. The AI(K) interrogation and intel gleaned from crashed aircraft reports are in AIR 40, the first ones start at AIR 40/2394. The Fighter Command summaires were from memory in AIR 16, I’ll need to check through my notes to find those as I didn’t keep a copy of the printed sheet I took to the NA with the file references on.
Thank you.
By: Alan Clark - 21st February 2013 at 00:32
The ones I’ve used are in two different series within AIR. The AI(K) interrogation and intel gleaned from crashed aircraft reports are in AIR 40, the first ones start at AIR 40/2394. The Fighter Command summaires were from memory in AIR 16, I’ll need to check through my notes to find those as I didn’t keep a copy of the printed sheet I took to the NA with the file references on.
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