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From memory, of 15 years+ ago, I’m sure you’re right.

IIRC, there were references to, for example, He111K Mk5. With hindsight of course, we now know that’s complete gibberish. Makes you wonder how good our intelligence was early in the war.

Ah, the old ‘military intelligence’ oxymoron. Just been reading Stephen Bungay’s ‘The Most Dangerous Enemy’ and he refers to both sides’ information gathering – it seems that though the British were not great at this, the Germans were worse, largely because reports were embellished to tell the high command what they wanted to hear (things like production of Hurricanes was low and not keeping up with demand, only a well-handled Spitfire could outmanoeuvre a Bf110, that sort of thing).