Hello, Rodger and nice to see you back on here.
When you catch up on your reading, you will see that cliffnemo has been making efforts to contact nachtgeschwader crew to inveigle them into joining this thread. It may be worth contacting him to see if any of his contacts may be able to locate a bi-lingual researcher for the flakartillerie records at the time Doug was lost on the Leipzig Op. Because Connie got their wedding ring returned, I'm convinced the wreckage came down in the vicinity of Leipzig, if not in the target area itself. The fact that neither any wreckage of HR732 or any of the crew were found indicates that the midair explosion fragmented the aircraft so much that the Germans probably never realised they had a complete Halifax and thus didn't search more thoroughly for the crew. If they had identified a crew member, then they would have looked fairly thoroughly for the rest and the associated wreckage to link them to. At least you have the news of the Ops totals being solved to pass on to the rest of the crews families.
This website may have some contacts if anyone can translate better than Google or Babelfish!
Flakartillerie
Apologies to all for deviation and hesitation!! Just a minute!!