So I was on the internet..........

[Lightjug]

First thing this morning I turned the page over on my Golden Age of Flight desktop calendar and there’s a beautiful Duxford Jug with its flashy checkerboard nose... Good ol No Guts No Glory Got me thinking of all the different variations and AC there so I figured a little internet wandering was in order when I returned home after a hard day at the office. So I started out at Little Friends looking at the various schemes of the 85th squadron... then a Lt. Quince L. Brown and his mount adorned with swastikas caught my attention... hmmm... double ace. So I Googled him which brought me to This Site which has copies of actual combat reports. Cool I thought... have to share this at WIX! When I read Mr. Brown’s report, he mentions shooting down a FW-290. 290? What the heck is a 290? A search on WIX... a mention of a JU-290 but that’s not it. Google? Came up with This Site ... um... I don’t think so. Anyone know what he is referring to?

[JDK]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_290

Junkers Ju 290 transport.

[JDK]

Oops, didn't read it properly.

Whatever it was, it wasn't a Fw 290, as the RLM issued the numbers once (with a couple of cover story exceptions). So Fw (could be a lot of Focke Wulf things) or a 290 (which makes it a Ju 290). Or?

More details of the report? Where/when/type details?

[Randy Haskin]

I'm thinking mis-type in the report.

[JDK]

I'm thinking mis-type in the report.

Fw 190 to Fw 290 is easy. But would a report get checked / corrected?

[Randy Haskin]

I'm thinking mis-type in the report.

Fw 190 to Fw 290 is easy. But would a report get checked / corrected?

Depends -- checked, yes, but corrected...perhaps not. During wartime, with new events literally occurring by the hour, by the day, there isn't a lot of time to have extra layers of redundancy. I'd imagine that, given the fact that typewriters were used, if there were minor errors that didn't impact the overall purpose of the report, they might not be corrected because the time/manpower to do so just didn't exist.

I say this because similar issues come up with current combat mission reports, and despite them being electronic and relatively easy to change AND several levels of checks, mistakes still make it through.

[Lightjug]

Thanks Randy and James. I'll keep looking or perhaps someone else here may have a go at this

[hercules130]

Do not know when the kill was made but perhaps it was a 190D or 152 and pilot's description/camera footage led the intel folks to believe it to be the next generation. If you look closely at some kill markings and or reports you will see things like Me 209 or Me 410 (when it clearly was not this).

Gary

[Lightjug]

Gary... thanks... I think you're on the money. Thinking a Dora-Nine was the next generation of the FW-190 so it became the FW-290.