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Quite a lot of what I have seen could be explained by liaison between the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine. Given the geography of Norway, I guess that very few flights would take place that would completely avoid the sea.

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Today's additions and updates to Ghost Bombers are:

• A new article: ULTRA and Unternehmen »PAULA«: 3 June 1940.
• Kommando Götz: details of a mission flown on 1 March 1945 (thanks to Chris Going).
• Staffel Kaatsch: the homeward flight of a damaged aircraft on 28 August 1944 (thanks to “Xerumbe” of the 12 o’clock high forum).
• Nachtjagdstaffel Norwegen: a British Intelligence appreciation of October 1944; identification of a shot down Lancaster (thanks to Theo Boiten).
• Jagdgeschwader Recognition Bands: more about the general notification to commands that German fighters would carry coloured bands (thanks to “Seaplanes” of the 12 o’clock high forum).
• Kommando Olga: activity by two aircraft of 6.(F)/123 on the night of 22/23 August 1944.
• Kommando Rastedter: addition of a strength return for 4./FAGr. 5 on 6 July 1944.
• Geschwader Bongart: something about I./LLG 1's departure from France plus some small additions regarding Bongart's operations on 5, 6 , 8 and 9 July 1944 (thanks to Jochen Prien); an additional note about 13 July; and a comment from a Maquis veteran about an action on 20 July.
• Kampfflieger Vol. IV: an addition about II./KG 6's part in the attack on Soissons on 30/31 August 1944.
• Adlertag: added an operation by I./KG 27 against airfields in England on the night of 6/7 June 1940.
• 1940 loss reports: six additional reports for the month of May and one for 11 June.
• A clarification about Kommando Schenck's target on 28 August 1944.

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"On the 25th, Uffz. Heinrich Semmelrogge (pilot), Uffz. Werner Dörries (radio operator), Uffz. Rudolf Lang (Bordwart) died in a crash attributed to pilot error (Ju 88 G-6, W.Nr. 621284, B4+NA). Petrick places this crash 20 km south west of Gardermoen aerodrome. Another G-6 was 30% damaged in a crash the following day but this time none of the crew was injured."

The location of this crash is correct, it went down about 1000 m from the house where I live now, in Gjerdrum. There are still people remembering the crash, they did however say that it was no doubt engine malfunction coming in. This day the plane had a completly different sound, and then it went down.

The germans cleaned up the wreck, so there is only metal parts showing up these days.

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Thanks very much for that information, I'll include it the next time I update the site.

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For the record (Unternehmen Paula etc update)
10 17 is Biggin Hill; 10 118 is Kenley; 10 99 is Hawkinge; 10 136 is Lympne
and finally 10 281 is Detling.

ATB

ChrisG

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Thanks, Chris.

Quite a lot of these target numbers appear in the messages and the British gradually understood more of them as time went on, I suppose because they could compare them with what had actually been bombed.

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Updates for Bastille Day are:

• Addition to my "Complete Works": 4./FAGr. 5, chapter 12 of Robert Forsyth: Shadow over the Atlantic (Osprey, 2017) ISBN 978 1 4728 2045 7.
• Kampfflieger Vol. 4: three new pages on the Bristol raid of 14–15 May 1944.
• Listening and Jamming: a new, illustrated page on the »Kettenhund« airborne jammer; also directives about the use of »Düppel« chaff, June–July 1944.
• Geschwader Bongart: actions at Saint-Amand-Montrond on 8 June 1944 (thanks to Philippe Cannone) and additional details of Re 2002 operations on 12 July 1944.
• Jagdgruppe 200: accident to an Fw 190 of Jagdgruppe Süd at Avignon on 10 June (thanks to Philippe Cannone) and a few more words about events on 23 June 1944.
• Invasion Watch: addition of RAF comments on German aircrew morale, 30 May 1944.
• Staffel Kaatsch: a new suggested location of Ltn. Bell's victory claimed on 3 September 1944 (thanks to Jochen Prien).
• Ghost Bombers the Moonlight War of NSG 9: new information from October 1942 about German proposals to use the CR. 42 by night and a Ju 87 night harassment operation in North Africa.

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité à tous!

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Hi Nick,

Thanks for all the effort you put into your excellent website and I know that you are busy but I was hoping you would be able to help please ?

I can't seem to access pages 2 and 3 of the latest update for Kampfflieger Vol.4 about the Bristol raid of 14-15 May 1944.

It's probably me but I've tried on several different computers at work and my tablet at home but nothing happens when I hit the "next" icon at the bottom of page one of the update.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

Sean.

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Thanks for pointing that out. It definitely wasn't you but on the other hand I don't know what it was. The links on page 1 were present in the page design app but when you tried to "preview in browser" they'd gone — even though those on pages 2 and 3 did work.

I went for the brute force option, deleted the old links and put in new ones which seem to be OK in Safari and Firefox.

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Thanks, Nick.

Regards,

Sean.