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Thanks Nick, great work!

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Nick, excellent coverage. I'm really enjoying your Luftwaffe loss reports May - October 1940. This brings unique insight into day to day operations and casualties during this critical period. More please!
Best regs,
Steve.

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addition to 13 August 1940:
The belly landing of "1Z+EU" was indeed in Schwarza (near Rudolstadt) and not in Schwarzach (like guessed) and the a/c belonged to 10./KG z.b.V.1 (with the badge of the 3rd group near the middle engine). I have some pictures of that landing. The W.Nr. was 3101 (with my bad eyes).

Greetings
Rasmussen

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Today's updates to ghostbombers.com:

• Luftwaffe loss reports, May–December 1940: the fourth instalment, two pages covering September.
• KG 100, ULTRA and the Coventry Blitz: a new page about joint RAF/RN Operation MEDIUM, during which a German navigational beam station was destroyed.
• Geschwader Bongart: an addition about the attack on St. Donat-sur-l'Herbasse on 15 June 1944.

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The last updates to ghostbombers.com for this year:

• Luftwaffe loss reports, May–December 1940: the fifth instalment, one page covering October.
• KG 100, ULTRA and the Coventry Blitz: a note about the special Whitley bombers assigned to the Wireless Intelligence Development Unit; and a substantial rewrite of the page about Operation MEDIUM, identifying a possible cause for the destruction of German navigational beam station "SPREE."

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My first new material for 2016 has been uploaded today to http://www.ghostbombers.com/updates/updates.html:

• Luftwaffe loss reports, May–December 1940: the sixth instalment, two pages covering November and December.
• Jagdgruppe 200: a map showing bases and combats.and an eyewitness account of the unit's action on 12 July 1944.
• Geschwader Bongart: information about two He 177 operations flown by Westa 2.
• Operation Dragoon: cancellation of an operation against Allied ships off Corsica on 13 August 1944.
• Kommando Olga: more information about 6.(F)/123 in the summer of 1944, including a Ju 188 operation from Saint-Martin-de-Crau.

This takes the site total to 541 pages.

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6.(F)123 Ju 88 S-1 140700 was not S-1 really, it was Ju 188 V61 (Prototype Ju 88 E-2) converted in mid 1942. Possibly the DF+EV but may have had other code.

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It can be assumed that He 177 A-3C refers to Rüstzustand C, with long range equipment.

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Thanks, that certainly makes sense of the reports.

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FYI, Ju 188 140700 is found in TNA HW 5/515 CX/MSS/R.229 /C/12.
(date 26.06.44)

-Eggert