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Introduction. For over a year I am connected with the Foundation Aircraft Recovery Group 1940-1945 in Heemskerk.  The foundation Aircraft Recovery Group 1940-1945 is a voluntary operated foundation and since  decades investigating all matters concerning the airwar over Holland during the second worldwar.   By inverstigating archives, talking to eye-witnesses and survivors of airplanecraches we try to  reconstruct all activities that happened in the sky over Holland at that period. Particularly the personal  aspects are the key-issue.   After the “paper”search in the archives we will try to determine the exact location of the lost plane,  whatever nationality it’s concernes. In case of the possible presence of missing persons, bombs or live  ammo, the foundation will do it’s utmost efforts to secure that the crew will have a proper re-burial and  all ammunition will be disposed off. Provided that the remains contains no persons or ammunition, the  foundation will commence salvage the remains of the plane. The results of the salvages is to be  displayed at the airwarmuseum at “fort Veldhuis”.  During the redecorating of one of the rooms in the fort, I had to find photos on one Geiger, a German  nightfighter pilot  We had a motor and the kiel area of his Messerschmitt merged with debris of other  German hunters. The intention was that this room gives a good impression about the nighthunters of  the Luftwaffe. The room is renamed in” The Nightfighterroom”  Because I wanted to know something more about this Mr. Geiger I checked out his "successes". I found  out that there were 53 claims, so feel free to call August Geiger a German Ace. Also I started to collect the data of the aircraft shot down by him in order to make a connection  between his "successes" and the personal suffering for the opponent. Right now I'm busy figuring out all sorts of data on the internet, also about the other two aces  in that  room, this is just the beginning.  Heemskerk, March 2012. Ron van der Aar