Posted By Fred Preller on February 13, 2008 at 10:54:49:
In Reply to: Airborne time frame during WWII over Europe posted by Willis S Cole, Jr. Sam on February 13, 2008 at 08:48:00:
: Simple question I thought, hard to get an exact answer.
: Eighth USAAF Mission time on 6 September 1943 places a bomber stream south of Paris at a specific hour. Same day Luftwaffe victory records for fighters south of Paris use the accepted German time-line.
: Are these equal times or does the German's recorded time and the Eighth's recorded time create a time variation? If so, what is the variation required to match the mission and fighter times?
German time is 1 hour ahead of UK time.That means at noon in London, it is 1:00 PM in Frankfurt (also, Paris).
Each conbatant force reckoned and recorded times based on their local times, so the 8th Air Force recorded times in UK time, even when over Germany.
In early September 1943, Daylight Saving Time would have been in effect in England - it is called Summer Time there, which would have made it the same time as German standard time. I don't know if Germany observed Daylight Savings/Summer Time during the war, although I expect they did. If Germany DID NOT observe DST, then the times would be the same. If not, the times would still be different by one hour.
Confused? There's more! During the war (at least in some years) England went on "Double Summer Time", springing forward two hours. That would put it equal to German DST, and one hour AHEAD OF German standard time - 2:00 PM England Double Summer Time would be 1:00 PM German standard time.
I hope that helps...
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