November 4,
I can confirm that Burkard was an AEO and Cummings is wrong. The Nav Radar was Jones.
I contacted Cummings today and gave him a jolly good slap - he has promised to take more care in future!
He does however plead that the RAF had about 9400 aircraft written off through accident and occasional enemy action since VE-Day and these included something like 6500 fatal casualties. All these have been covered in his series of books. The inevitable incorrect designation he suggests is regretable but probably inevitable.
O-D