What's Changed?
2001
page generated: Decenber 18, 2001
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- Changes to the links page will not be included here. Check the page if you wish to see if there are any changes.
- Minor changes to pages for spelling corrections, unit corrections etc.. will not usually be listed. For such small
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- December 18, 2001
- New entries for Belgium in World War Two. Info from "Air Force on the Edge", Dionisio Garcia, AIR Enthusiast, November/December 2001 No.96.
- New conflict, Argentine Coup Attempt June 1955. Info from Gloster Meteor en Argentina, Atilio Marino, Jorge Nunez, Argentina 1998 via Tomas Polak.
- November 14, 2001
- New entries for Greek/Turk conflicts in Greece.
- October 25, 2001
- One new name for People's Republic of China for Korean War. Info from "Chinese MiG Ace over Korea", Bob Bergin, Military History Vol.18, No.5 Dec/2001, PRIMEDIA Enthusiast Group, Leesburg, VA.
- New entries for various airliner and civilian shootdowns in Claims with No Names in Africa. Info found at the Aviation Safety Net site.
- Moved the Cold War entries for the People's Republic of China to the Vietnam War.
- September 20, 2001
- New names (Bergmeier, Dadd, Preiss, Stangl) for Germany for World War Two. Info from The Luftwaffe Fighters' Battle of Britain: The Inside Story July-October 1941, Chris Goss, Crecy Publishing, Ltd. 1999 via Dean Wick and from Monatserfolgsbericht Mai 1943, Bundesarchiv, Koblenz Germany from Bernd Barbas and Milan Kajcivia via Ondrej Repka.
- New names for Great Britain for the Israeli Independence War 1948. Info from Arab-Israeli Air Wars 1947-82, Shlomo Aloni, Osprey Publishing, London 2001 via Jean-Paul Gleize.
- New entry for Claims with No Names in Africa. Info from "Les Forces Aeriennes en Algerie (1)", Yves Buffetaut, Wing Masters No.20 Jan-Feb 2001, Paris, France via Jean-Paul Gleize.
- September 2, 2001
- New names for Slovakia for World War Two. Info from Sestrely stihacu Slovenskych vzdusnych zbrani za 2. svetove valky, Jiri Rajlich, Letectvi+kosmonautika 15-16/2001, Prague, Czech Republic
and via correspondences with Ota Jirovec.
- August 19, 2001
- Removed the change of July 27, 2001 for Great Britain for World War One.
- One new name (Tammen) for Germany for World War Two.
- August 11, 2001
- New entries for USSR in Winter War (1 name), Nomonhan Incident (1 name) and World War Two (38 names). Info from
Triumf a Tragedie, Milos Sedivy & Valeriy Dimich, Svet Kridel, Cheb, Czech Republic 2001 and Na vysotakh muzhestva, Fedor Semyonovich Gnezdilov, Izdatelstvo Belarus, Minsk 1987 via Ondrej Repka.
- August 1, 2001
- New entries for Greek/Turk conflicts in Cyprus.
- July 27, 2001
- One new name to Great Britain for World War One. Info from Bloody April, Alan Morris, Jarrolds Pub. Ltd., 1967 via Gert Pretorius.
- New entries for Greek/Turk conflicts in Claims with No Names page.
- July 9, 2001
Back from vacation, and working on house repairs, and getting back into updates, starting with a small one.
- Changes to Australia in the Korean War. Info from United States Credits for Destruction of Enemy Aircraft in Air-to-Air Combat Post World War Two, Frank J. Olynyk, self published, January 1999.
- June 16, 2001
- More new names for Romania in World War Two. Info from Hurricane w obcej sluzbie, Miroslaw Wawrzinski, AJaKS Pub., Warsaw, Poland 2000 via Ondrej Repka.
- One new name for Russia in the Russian Revolution. Info from "Aviatsia belykh armii Rossii v gody grazhdanskoi voiny i poslevoennye gody", Yu. Doronini, Aviatsia i kosmonavtika 3/2000 via Tomás Polák.
- June 1, 2001
- Five new names (Munding,Karl; Franzisket, Max; Fiedler, Reinhold;Maul, unknown; Kurpiers, Rudolf) for Germany in World War Two. Info from Eismeerjäger: Zur Geschichte des Jagdgeschwaders 5, Band 1Zerstörer - und Jabo Staffeln, Eric Mombeek, 2001 via Jim Perry.
- May 20, 2001
- Numerous new names for Romania in World War Two. Info from Vânatorul IAR-80: Istoria unui erou necunoscut, Dan Antoniu & George Cicos, Editura Modelism, Bucharest 2000 via Victor Nitu.
- May 8, 2001
- New names for USSR in World War Two section. Info from "Bitva nad Jassami", Dmitrii Khazanov, AVIAMASTER 4/99, Tekhnika Molodezhi, Moscow via Ondrej Repka.
- Small adjustment to some claims for USSR for the Nomonhan Incident. Info from Russian Aces web site (aces.boom.ru) via Vlad Arhipov.
- New name for Romania in World War Two. Info via researcher Dénes Bernád.
- April 25, 2001
- Claims for Austria for a new conflict, in the Between the World Wars section. Info from Albatros DII & DIII Oeffag, P.A.Tesar, JaPo Publications, Czech Republic 1998 via Ondrej Repka.
- Claims for Czechoslovakia for the Hungarian Border Conflicts - 1919, in the Between the World Wars section. Info from Stihaci letadla prvni svetove valky v Ceskoslovensku, Jan Kase & Vladimir Piric, Svet Kridel, Czech Republic 1994 via Ondrej Repka.
- Entry for the unfortunate shootdown of a Cessna 185 by the Peruvian Air Force on 20/Apr/2001 in the Claims with No Names section.
- April 6, 2001
- Minor spelling and other corrections to Germany and USSR in World War Two.
- Additional info to Cold War claims. Info from Sovetskie letchiky na zashchite neba Kitaya i Korei 1950-1951, V.B. Naboka, Sovetskaya Kuban, Krasnodar, 1999 via Tomás Polák
- March 23, 2001
- March 16, 2001
- Two new names (Eckhoff, Gardiewski) and some minor corrections to Germany in World War Two. Info from Nachtjagd: Night fighter versus Bomber war over the Third Reich, Theo Boiten, Crosswood Press, Wiltshire 1997 via Dean Wick.
- New names for Greece in World War Two. Info from "1940-1941: l'aviation grecque au combat", Michel Ledet, Avions No.44, November & December 1996 via Dr. Daniel Reynaud.
- March 2, 2001
- New names and some minor corrections to Cold War claims. Info from "Goryache nebo kholodnoy voyny", Alexandr Kotlobovskii & Igor Seidov, Aviatsia i Vremya 2/1995, "Na yuzhnykh rubezhakh 'Kholodnoy voyny', Igor A. Seidov, Aviatsia i Vremya No.4/2000 and "Zhave vystrely studene valky, part 1", Tomas Polak, Plastic Kits Review No.26, 1999 via Ondrej Repka.
- February 23, 2001
- New entry for Holland in World War One. Info from The Jasta Pilots, Norman Franks, Frank Bailey & Rick Duiven, Grub Street, London 1995 via Jari Lappalainen.
- February 19, 2001
- February 15, 2001
- New entry for Iraq for the Iran-Iraq War 1980-1990. Info via Tomás Polák.
- February 8, 2001
- Minor changes to Holland in World War II. Info via Tomás Polák.
- February 1, 2001
- Updates to Romania in World War Two . Info from "L'Impact d'une Chanson", Avions No.84, March 2000 and "Des deux cotes du front: l'as roumain Vasile Gavriliu", Avions No.87, June 2000, both by Cristian Craciunoiu via Ondrej Repka.
- January 25, 2001
- Changes to Holland in World War II. Info from the books, Nederlandse Vliegtuig Encyclopedie, Fokker D.XXI by Hugo Hooftman and Nederlandse Vliegtuig Encyclopedie, Fokker G.1, second edition by Hugo Hooftman via Benno Goethals.
- New names (Brauns, Wurm) and some spelling corrections to Germany in World War II. Info from the books Bloody Biscay by Chris Goss and 249 at War by Brian Cull via Dean Wick.
- Changes to Cuba for the Bay of Pigs. Info from Cuban researcher Ruben Urribarres.
- New entry for Cuba for Skirmishes in Africa (Angola). Info from Cuban researcher Ruben Urribarres.
- January 19, 2001
- New entry for South Africa in the Korean War. Info from The Air Force Historical Research Agency via Gert Pretorius.
- January 11, 2001
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