Red tape
14. September 1943
Write to the shooting were still reports of aircraft kills. Here showed up again, What to do were for bureaucratic paperwork for such a message. Issues were listed on a pre-printed Formluar, such as: Burned the machine in the air? Came down with a plume of smoke? It exploded on the ground? It burned to the ground or only a cloud of smoke was seen? etc. You wanted to know so even the factory number and the year of manufacture of the aircraft. To do this all the witness certificates had to be written off several times. It was really a paperwork.
Proposals were an extensive work to the Iron Cross. Alone of the B I I the submissions of 5 Man written. As the way the Protze position was quite far, I once again made with the Tross Rebase, something closer to the assumed approached. It was also back in the forest. I have machine written in my life so much, to write but middle of the green forest, While in the blue sky, enemy aircraft herumschwirrten, This had not happened yet still me.