Accounted Airmen Database - Feedback / Corrections

[Jagan]

Oh yes, i am validating them manually from bottom of the list - found two hits out of ten.. so a bulk of them will still need to be cleaned up.

[jonheyworth]

Email, bounces back for some reason
Correcton for you . You have ames hamilton white dying as a pow 1946 -2-1, long after the war was over , he died of cellulite of the face and neck in the 72nd imperial general hospital in penang

[paulmcmillan]

Jon

How far are you through your notebooks !


Paul

[jonheyworth]

Not that far ? I think I’ve given our Jagan about 3000 new entries ? But I’ve waded through about 25000 guys n gals to find ones not already accounted for

[Jagan]

Jon got it. not sure about my email but it should work .. sent you at test message. Will take care of this update.

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

Speaking of errors. The author's name is, Chris Hobson.

Col.

[jonheyworth]

If anyone wants to look at who’s still outstanding st Runnymede, I’ll fill in a load of the blanks later today when I get home

[jonheyworth]

Apologies . My dyslexia at play ! Coupled with my discalcula it’s a bit of a nightmare sometimes . Names are one of my particular weak areas both in spelling and face to face recollection . Still it comes in handy when you call a girlfriend by the wrong name . I noticed last night I’d spelt attatched about 900 times instead of attached ! The burdens we live with eh !

[Jagan]

Corrected about 264 serials in the CWGC DB that were returning 'unknown type' usually narrowed down to transposed numbers or letters.


These are out of a total of 99,682 records tied to aircraft serials - so 1% rate in bad records.

There are still about 960 entries that do not resolve to identified aircrafts or types..

148 are simply "Unidentified Aircraft".. Others serials not known.
106 Unidentified Spitfire serials
100 records for Hurricanes
87 Beaufighter entries
37 records for Mosquitos
37 Liberator
24 Kittyhawk/Tomahawk
27 Dakota
27 Baltimore

and so on