I noticed some things that make no sense in reference to von Bonin’s three victories that night. If his first kill was at Wascheid, near Pruem, at 0220 hours, which is in the Eifel region of Northrhein Westphalia, then I don’t think he could have made it to his second kill at 0240 S.E. of Darmstadt, which I still have not figured out which aircraft that was supposed to have been. Now if he did indead score the 0240 kill S.E. of Darmstadt, then the 0243 shoot-down of JB221 could have happened as stated. I then also believe that the crew of JB221 saw von Bonin shoot down the other aircraft (Halifax) and might have changed course because of that. In order for von Bonin to have scored twice in three minutes, the two bombers must have been in close proximity of each other and von Bonin’s radar operator (or ground station operator) must have had an immediate vector for JB221 after shooting down the Halifax.
Also of interest is that a well known website, which we are not allowed to mention, or refer to in here has von Bonin shooting down 76 Sqdn. Halifax LK687, 15km N.W. of Wuerzburg (no time mentioned). So either he scored four times that night, or the Pruem one was not von Bonin, or something else is incorrect. To many missing pieces in this puzzle, arggg. Danny