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JG 26 at Nancy is taken from CX/MSS/T198/41, "Unsigned and incomplete series of accident reports dated 26/5" and other messages. So it definitely happened in May.

III./JG 27 at Soucelles:

CX/MSS/T226/21
Dated 24/6 to IC:
Low-level attack by 8 Mustangs on a/f 7 (C% 0) C ((satellite of Angers)) from 08.05 to 08.25 hrs.
2 Bf 109 of (Roman) of III./JG 27 burned out. (B% 6) Bf 109 of (Roman) III./JG 27 shot up.

CX/MSS/T226/66
KV 9571
((A)) From IC to IC (situation) and QM on 25/6:
i) Subsidiary A/F Soucelles near Angers.
ii) 24/6/1635 hrs.
iii) 25 Mustangs. A/C armament.

… NOTES:
1) Low level attacks on 70 C at 08.15 and 16.30–17.05/24/6 in T226/17, 21, 33, 53. Losses were: At 08.15 hrs. 2 burnt out, 3 to 6 shot up. At 17.00 10 a/c destroyed.
2) In item 2, para. VIII A and B possibly killed and wounded. Para. IX possibly a/c damaged. Cf. T209/187.
3) Comparison of the above references with the present documents suggests that 70 C may equal Soucelles.

As for 6./JG 53, II./JG 53 was operating under the control of JG 27's Kommodore at the time. Pierre Babin told me that the 6. Staffel was at Soucelles but the ULTRAs son't make that clear.

REF. CX/MSS/T224/9 KV 9269
ZZZ
Following Me 109 reported very early on 23rd serviceable at Angers.
Stab JG 27: 1
(Strong indications I. Gruppe) JG 27: 6
III./JG 27: 12
IV./JG 27: 6
II./JG 53: 9
(Comment: KV 9176 refers occupation Angers satellite airfields by these units)
231111Z/6/44

It was ordered to transfer to a new base on the 25th and operated on 26 June with 4 aircraft from Champfleury.

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All clear regarding Soucelles as per CX/MSS/T226/21 -26 and CX/MSS/T224/9 KV 9269, Nick.

I was just confused because my original post addressed Fl.Pl. Nancy's 25 May 1944 attack - CX/MSS/T198/41 - which was not among the pages posted in post #277.

Thanks again for your time and very complete follow-up, Nick. Highly appreciated.

Sincerely
Marc

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Sorry, my mistake. The business of III./JG 26 at Nancy is complicated because it depends on piecing together a number of fragmented ULTRA intercepts (transcriptions of three such items attached). By the way, that 740… Werk Nummer is what's on file, so I suspect the mistake arose when the original message was being entered on to the Enigma machine.

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I have WNr. 440723 as taken from his FB as well.

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Nick,

I chanced on this photo- currently offered by Michael Meyer on eBay:
https://www.ebay.de/itm/Foto-Luftwaf...IAAOSwXwhgALX8

Given the white MTO Theatre band, could it be a Ju 188 D from 4.(F) or 6.(F)/122 ?

Cheers
Marc

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More stuff uploaded this afternoon:

• Geschwader Bongart: two German accounts (thanks to Alain Cerri) of bombing of the Glières Plateau; Bongart: a new section about the unit's Operations Officer, Maj. Dr. Ochs (thanks to Vince Ochs); a new table of organisation as of 22.07.44; note about Ofw. Karl Zobe; added photo of Re. 2002 W.Nr. 1283; additions to acknowledgements and sources.
• Operation Dragoon: a note on Ju 188 W.Nr. 280237 of 1.(F)/33.
• The Bf 109 H and 5.(F)/123: information on testing at Memmingen (thanks to Steve Coates).
• Raid damage reports: note about report of Bf 109 G-6 W.Nr. 740723 (thanks to JimP and Marc-André Haldimann); I./KG 66 aircraft damaged at Montdidier on 12 June 1944.
• Armistice to Eagle Day: amended conclusions.
• ULTRA and Adlertag: quotes from naval situation reports and (thanks to Chris Going) identification of some target numbers.
• Kommando Koch: new material throughout on jamming reported by No. 221 Squadron and other RAF units.
• Kommando Rastedter: additions about the Metox and Hagenuk radar warning receivers.
• Kommando Kunkel: addition about the fate of the Kommando's aircraft and personnel.
• Invasion Watch (April–June 1944): an addition regarding Bf 109 W.Nr. 20355.
• Kampfflieger Vol. IV: an RAF veteran's account of one consequence of the raid on Bari
• SG 4 Normandy: more on KG 54's supply drops to radar station Distelfink on 9 and 12 June 1944.
• JGr. 200: addition about an anti-partisan action by Luftwaffe Flak and signals personnel from Aix-les-Milles aerodrome.

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Today's additions to my website:

• ULTRA and Adlertag: additions from German naval situation reports; identification of target numbers (thanks to Chris Going).
• Kampfgruppe 100, the first weeks in France: additions about the construction of Knickebein and Wotan installations at Beaumont-Hague.
• Kommando Koch: a possible WIM-station at Filiates, Greece; the Sestriere convoy of 4–7 October 1942; Italian reports on the loss of the tanker Proserpina; additions regarding the meeting between Field Marshals Cavallero and Kesselring in Tatoi in August 1942.
• I./JG 2 in Italy: additions and corrections about Fw. Hans Linzen and Fw. Werner Kilchling; a possible "new" 3./JG 2 pilot, Uffz. Walter Heiden.
• JGr. 200: two film stills showing a wrecked JGr. 200 Bf 109 G-6 at Valence; addtions about Uffz. Walter Cöster (14 July and 7 August 1944); Uffz. Josef Scheits; Stabsgefr. Günther Eicke and Gefr. Helmut Stache.
• Geschwader Bongart: additions about Ofw. Wilhelm Paul 7; Fw. Heinz Schertag; the loss of a W.34; new information regarding actions on 16 June and 11 July 1944 (thanks yet again to Philippe Cannone).
• Kampfflieger Vol. 4: additions to the account of raids on Paris on 26 August and 26 December 1944 (the latter thanks to Peter Taghon).

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Thanks Nick - really enjoyed reading the JGr.200 article which is absolutely fascinating and incredibly detailed. Has to be sufficient material for a magazine piece at least?

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Very kind of you to say so but the lack of photos from the unit would be a big problem, I think.

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I've uploaded the following updates and additions to my site this afternoon:

• 1940 losses: changes and additions to 24 April; 12 May; 11 June 12; 27 July; 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27 and 29 August; and 1, 2, 8 and 12 September.
• KGr. 100: additions to 31 August and 2–12 September 1940 about a Knickebein training course, a missing crew and indents for equipment).
• Armistice to Eagle Day: fixed link to a short page about Erpr. Gr. 210.
• Kommando Koch: air raid casualties suffered at Grosseto in 1943.
• Kommando Kunkel: strength figures for 15 February 1944.
• Kommando Rastedter: additions to June 1943, February, May and June 1944 and Radar Decoys.
• New page on the Starnberg W/T jammer and Düppel chaff.
• 10./ZG 1: strength figures for 15 February 1944.
• SG 4 in Normandy: the scenario for an invasion exercise in July 1943, involving SG 101.
• Geschwader Bongart: extract from a German memorandum on glider-borne attacks.
• Various minor corrections.

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I've posted some updates this afternoon:

• Unternehmen »Paula«: additional decrypt from 24 May 1940.
• Armistice to Eagle Day: additions about technical adjustments to six Ju 87 R-2 (27 July 1940)
• KGr. 100: a request for reports on operational experiences with Knickebein.
• 1940 losses: addition about the crash of a Do 17 on 14 September.
• KGr. 100, ULTRA and the Coventry Blitz: Seekriegsleitung diary entry about Operation Medium.
• Kommando Rastedter: a report on the use of the »Aphrodite« radar decoy
• I./JG 2 in Italy: more about the the death of Uffz. Walter Heiden on 14 March 1944, the combats on 19 March; revisions to the conclusions, the list of pilots and the map; various amendments throughout (with particular thanks to Neil Page, Erik Mombeeck and the work of Jochen Prien for helping to make sense of an ULTRA decrypt).
• Invasion Watch: a Seekriegsleitung assessment of 5 June and two additions to the Postscript.
• SG 4 Normandy: more about operations on 9 June 1944.
• Geschwader Bongart: the reported crash of a bomber near Limoges and more about the abduction of two naval officers.
• Staffel Kaatsch: report of a reconnaissance of Briançon on 21 September 1944.
• Jagdgeschwader recognition markings: advice of 22 December 1944 to 9. SS-Panzer Division about new fuselage bands.

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My latest updates are now posted:

• 1940 losses: additions for 19 and 24 April.
  
• Markings and camouflage: additions for 20 April 1940 and 10 June 1944.
  
• Unternehmen Paula: loss of Fw. Werner Patrzich (III./KG 77); a request for photographs by I./ZG 2; and the Paris fire service casualty figures.
  
• Kommando Koch: signal to the cruiser Prinz Eugen on 25 May 1941 about future jamming of Royal Navy radars.
  
• I./JG 2 in Italy: addition regarding a B-26 missing in action on 14 March 1944.
  
• III./SG 4 in Normandy: more about the bombing of the Bénouville bridge, 8 June 1944.
  
• Jagdgruppe 200: minor corrections.
  
• Geschwader Bongart: addtions for 18 and 19 July (rescue of german naval personnel); and 13, 14, 17, 18 and 25 August 1944.
  
• Kommando Rastedter: a radar reconnaissance flight on 30 July 1944 and information about a captured German jamming transmitter.
  
• Kommando Götz: the docket for Götz's transfer flight from Oranienburg to Juvincourt on 2 August 1944 (courtesy of Dave Wadman).
  
• 6.(F)/123: addition of the unit's code and a flight 4/5 August 1944.

I had planned to add a new article but it's kept getting bigger — so maybe next time for that one.

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I've added quite a lot to the site this morning:

• ULTRA in 1940: New article of 10,000 words-plus on Eagle Day to Battle of Britain Day.
• Armistice to Eagle Day: addition to the introduction; new sections on victory claims and night fighters.
• KGr. 100 and the Coventry Blitz: a brief postscript with a war correspondent's report from 1944.
• Kommando Koch: reference to the cruiser Prinz Eugen moved to the section on Unternehmen »Cerberus«. expanded chapters for July and August 1942 (thanks to infromation provided by Peter Taghon) and a graphic showing the RAF systems affected by German jamming transmitters..
• Heinz Hauck and 6.(F)/123: rewritten to incorporate new information, with thanks to Hans-Heinrich Weber and Marcel van Heijkop.
• Kampfflieger Vol. 4: date for arrival of an advance party and several revisions to text of Einsatzkommando KG 51 in France; minor corrections to Operation Spielzeug.
• Geschwader Bongart: more KG 100 operations against the Maquis including some with guided weapons; additional detail of Bongart's activities in July additions 1944; more about I./ZG 1's missions against the Resistance from 12 June 1944; damage at Valence on 26 July; a warning on 7 August about renewed guerrilla activity; additions to the pages on Kdo. Schäfer. (All the foregoing thanks to infromation from Peter Taghon and Chris Goss).
• Operation Dragoon: date of order to convert II./KG 26 to conventional bombing; KG 26 activity on 19 ans 20 August 1944.
• Invasion Watch: 18 April 1944 report from the Japanese Naval Attaché in Berlin.
• JGr. 200: damage from bombing at Miramas on 12 July and Valence on 24 July 1944.
• Kommando Olga (4./KG 200): additions about casualties in December 1944.
• Nachtjagdstaffel Norwegen: added a loss on 19 June 1944.
• 1.(F)/100: addition for 17 April 1945.
• Camouflage and Markings: naval signal of 8 February 1942.
• NSG 9: addition about the Nachtschwarm Oblt. Haimböck
• Many minor corrections to typing and layouts.

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Many additions to the site today, quite a lot of them made possible by the material now available online from the Bundesarchiv:

• Kommando. Koch: additions to Unternehmen »Cerberus«; 24 August 1942.
• Listening and Jamming: additions to January 1944 and to 4/FAGr. 5's formation & disbandment.
• Kommando. Kunkel: additions to May and June 1944 and sources.
• Kommando Schenck: additions to June 1944.
• KG 200 organisation: amended source note.
• Kommando Götz: corrected date on page 14.
• 1.(F)/100: corrected date on page 4.
• 10./ZG 1: addition about the Staffel's disbandment.
• Nachtjagstaffel Norwegen: dates of formal establishment and renaming.
• 1./NAG 1 and the Me 262: disbandment of 1./NAGr. 13 before completing its conversion..
• NAG 6 and the Me 262: additions about Kommando Braunegg and the allocation of aircraft for conversion.
• Heinz Hauck and 6.(F)/123: additions about 3./KG 66's origins and 6.(F)/123's formation. and disbandment.
• Kampfflieger Vol. 4: Order of 22 January 1945 about LG 1 operations against supply traffic to Antwerp.
• Jagdgruppe 200: additions to 6 and 23 July and to the After Provence section.
• III./SG 4 in Normandy: additions to 12 June and 17 June 1944.
• Geschwader Bongart: additions to Beginnings; 20, 22, 28, 29 and 30 June; 14–15 July; St. Pierre 17 July (thanks again to Philippe Cannone); Kommando Schäfer 11 July and a graphic for 22 July 1944.
• Invasion watch: more details of German reconnaissance flights on 6 June 1944.
• Markings and camouflage: additions about 25 June 1941 Mediterranean theatre markings; proposed deceptive markings for the V1; the Me 262 ’S’ marking.
• 1940 losses: identification of a 25 April loss as a Ju 52.
• Convoy UGS-40: identification of a missing shadowing aircraft.
• The Bf 109 H and 5.(F)/123: cancellation of the programme.
• Various minor corrections and changes to pagination.

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Nick, your work on ME 262's remains extremely helpful. Thank you.

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...just caught up with the lengthy 'Ultra in 1940' piece. Fascinating, extremely well written, and must have taken a while to compile. Thank you.

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Thanks Nick,

For your continued efforts and updates; they are highly appreciated.

Sincerely,
Marc

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Nick,

One small tidbit of an information: Fw 190 F-8/R1 E8+EH of 1./NSGr. 9 found by war's end at Vicenza and noted as such by Nr.1 F.I.U. (Party B) team 4 May 1945 without W.Nr. recorded is actually W.Nr. 584562, as ascertained by a close-up photo of its tail, posted over on LRG Forum here:
https://www.luftwaffe-research-group...2/#post-108059

Cheers
Marc

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Thanks, the mid-shot showing the "Scuola di Politaggio" hangar emerged a few years after the book came out and there are three more in Hideki Noro's "LO+ST" (2009), including that one of the tail. There's also one there of E8+MH.

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Added this morning:

• Geschwader Bongart: addtions to the sections on orirgins; March 1944; 8, 9,10, 12 and 20 June; 8, 18 and 26 July; 12, 13, 17 and 18 August; translated excerpts from a Wehrmacht handbook on anti-partisan warfare, covering the role of the Luftwaffe (quotations from this also added as monthly chapter headings); changes to pagination and navigation.
• LLG 1 and Kommando Schäfer: additions for July and September 1944.
• Jagdgruppe 200 in Provence: more about the unit's origins.
• Kommando Kunkel: additions to the sections on organisation, June and July 1944.
• Einsatzommando KG 51 in France: more about February, 22 July and 9 August 1944.
• SG 4 in Italy: addition to June 1944.
• SG 4 in Normandy: addition to 12 June 1944.
• Operation Dragoon: more about 2./SAGr. 128 on 20 August 1944; finally corrected the spelling of Biscarrosse, 27 years after starting on this project.

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Addition to flights by 4/NJG 3. Flugansagen von FLUKO Aalborg.
23/4-45 2353 start Ju 88 B4+OA zum Alarm nach Flieder. 0043 landung.
23/4-45 2354 start Me 110 zum Alarm für Flieder. Landung 0138.

Jörn

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Thanks Nick - always good to see more about Jagdgruppe 200 :)

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Marking 18 years since the site went live, this morning I’ve posted these updates and additions to Ghost Bombers:

• Kampfflieger Vol. 4 (page 339): a ten-page/9,500-word article on Luftwaffe night bombing over Normandy in the period between the American Operation COBRA and the German Unternehmen Lüttich (27 July–8 August 1944).
• Kampfflieger Vol. 4: more about reconnaissance operations associated with the December 1943 raid on Bari.
• Ghost Bombers, the Moonlight War of NSG 9: additional details of operations in April 1945.
• Invasion watch: an extract from a medal citation referring to the sighting of the invasion fleet by Maj. Kurt Dahlmann of I./SKG 10.
• Stab JG 77 war diary: more about JG 77's operations with the Macchi C.205 in November and December 1943.
• Nachtjagdstaffel Norwegen: additional information on flights in April 1945, thanks to Jörn Junker and situation reports from by the Bundesarchiv.
• I./JG 2 in Italy: my translation of a contemporary magazine article about Siegfried Lemke's experiences on 19 March 1944.
• NAG 6 and the Me 262: additions about results on 2 February, an Fw 190 operation on 31 March and missions with the Fw 190 and Me 262 during April 1945.
• NAG 1 and the Me 262: additions about operations on 7 & 10 April 1945.
• 1940 losses: additions for late October.
• Schlachtflieger: details added to "The Stuka on the Scrapheap" about the evacuation of Bonn-Hangelar.
• Kommando Koch: added a deciphered signal of 26 October 1940 mentioning Hptm. Koch.

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Nick

Happy anniversary for your site, always interesting,

Regards

Russell

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Amazing stuff, Nick
Thank you

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Added to my site this morning, taking it to 783 pages:

• Nachtjagdstaffel Norwegen: expanded account of operations flown in 1945.
• Kommando Koch: more about jamming during the Channel Dash and the situation on Malta in July 1942.
• Geschwader Bongart: a proposal to deploy KG 200's Kommando Schäfer against the allies in Normandy in June 1944.
• Kampfflieger Vol. 4: a brief extract from a postwar assessment of X. Fliegerkorps' use of guided weapons against bridges; German evaluations of the Kettenhund jammer; production figures for the Starnberg jammer and data on Düppel reflective strips; an assessment of LG 1's performance in January 1945.
• III./SG 4 in Normandy: another tribute to the defenders of radar station »Distelfink«.
• The Luftwaffe and Saint-Exupéry: expanded to take account of additional material from the Bundesarchiv; also an examination of the myth that reconnaissance pilot Robert Heichele shot the French author down.

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Added to my site this morning, taking it to 788 pages:

• Flieger Geschwader z.bV. 7: activities, locations and aircraft of the unit's elements during 1944.
• Listening and Jamming: additions about a Luftwaffe/Kriegsmarine discussion and the loss of an electronic reconnaissance Mosquito, both in August 1943.
• The Bf 109 H with 5.(F)/123: an addition about Leichte Flak Abteilung 757.
• Air raid damage: Ju 88 G-6's of II./NJG 2 falling victim to an an attack in January 1945.
• Geschwader Bongart: actions at Morvan (7 August 1944) and Crux-la-Ville (12 August 1944), with thanks again to Philippe Cannone.
• Jagdgruppe 200: minor alteration about early victories by JGr. Süd and (thanks to John Manrho) the name of the witness to Fw. Guth's victory on 30 July 1944.
• Markings and camouflage: an addition about standardising Me 262 camouflage (27 March 1945).
• SG 4 in Normandy: addition regarding the Ritterkreuz awarded to the CO of the Distelfink radar station

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Added to my site this morning, bringing it up to 794 pages:

• Listening and jamming: more about German radar and sonar decoys and measures to camouflage U-boats against radar; Luftwaffe thinking on the deployment of active radio countermeasures at sea (October 1943); the Werneuchen test establishment's thoughts on maritime tactical signals reconnaissance (November 1943); more about fitting out Ju 188s and 388s for electronic reconnaissance (Summer 1944).
• Kommando Koch: more about the use of smoke buoys to defend the Portofino convoy against air attack on 3–4 November 1942.
• Geschwader Bongart: notification to Armeegruppe A on 19 June 1944 that air support was available from Bongart and procedures for calling it in; more about Kdo. Schaefer (air-landing troops of II./KG 200); a Resistance attack on the Toulouse factory of a Junkers sub-contractor.
• Kampfflieger Vol. 4: addition to convoy KMS-31 (11 November 1943) about KG 26's early experiences with the FuG 200 Hohentwiel search radar; new articles about convoys UGS-46 (11–12 July 1944) and UGS-48 (31 July–1 August 1944); more about the Kettenhund jammer; reported interference with Neptun-R radars during the Bristol raid of 14–15 May 1944.
• Markings and camouflage: a memo about removing yellow identification paint in the West (26 June 1944); revised ambulance aircraft markings (19 December 1944).
• Operation Dragoon: a brief report from ground troops on the Bf 109 of II./JG 77 lost on 19 August 1944.
• NSG 9: Oberbefehlshaber Südwest's remarks on the bombing of German airfields (18 November 1944); more about proposals to protect NSG 9 by jamming Allied radars; Ob. SW's remarks on two nights' operations in January 1945.
• Kommando Götz: Ob. West's diary entry for the first Ar 234 reconnaissance operation, on 2 August 1944; and an aborted operation on 17 September 1944.
• 1940 losses: more about signals Ju 52 NR+AK, damaaged on 27 October.
• Jagdgruppe 200: small additions to 5, 17, 25 July 1944 ; orders to ground troops in Southern France about assisting bailed-out German pilots.

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I’ve posted these updates and additions to Ghost Bombers today:

• Invasion Watch: The Kommandeur of NAGr. 13's view of tactical reconnaissance aircraft and tactics; additional summaries of reconnaissance results on 26 & 27 April and 8 & 24 May 1944.
• Sonderstaffel Kaatsch: more about operations on 18–22, 24, 25, 27, 29 & 30 August; and 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 25–27 & 29 September 1944. Includes a map showing two sorties flown on the evening 5 September and what was sighted.
• Geschwader Bongart: more about anti-partisan operations by III./KG 100; more on Bongart's operations on 18 June; 9 & 20 August (thanks again to Philippe Canonne); and 4 Setpember 1944.
• Kommando Schäfer: an addition about the disbandment of LLG 1 and LLG 2.
• Listening and Jamming: more about radar detection of the U-boat Schnorchel.
• The Bf 109 H with 5.(F)/123: a Luftwaffe complaint about friendly Flak firing on its aircraft.
• Kampfflieger Vol. 4: more about German intentions for the bombing of Paris on 26/27 August 1944 and intelligence on events in the city afterward.
• Kommando Olga: guidelines issued in November 1944 for the unit's operations.
• Operation Dragoon: additions about Luftwaffe operations on 14, 18 and 19 August 1944.

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I've updated my site today:

• Complete Works: updated to include my 24,000-word piece, "Sonderstaffel Einhorn and III./KG 200: from Self-sacrifice to Surrender", in the forthcoming Axis Wings compendium.
• Kommando Rastedter: additions about a Ju 188 flight on 21 November 1943; 192 Squadron's "Goldmark" radar investigation flights; U-boats turning back with defective radar-warning sets; and the Schornsteinfeger radar-absorbent coating for U-boats.
• Invasion Watch: Ob. West's advice to OKL on 4 January 1944 about reconnaissance over the Channel; and Genltn. Koller's comments of 7 May 1944 on reinforcement of the units available in France.
• Markings and Camouflage: a German report from July 1944 on the wreck of a Bf 109 G-6 of 6./JG 53 in Normandy.
• SG4 in Normandy: additions for 6 June and 12 June 1944.
• Nachtjagdstaffel Norwegen: an addition about events on 25 February 1945.

Please note that I'm in the porocess of moving it to a new host, so there may be some downtime during the week.

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New material uploaded this morning to my site:

• Background and sources for my c. 25,000-word history Sonderstaffel Einhorn and III./KG 200: from Self-sacrifice to Surrender in Axis Wings Volume 1 (just published by Chandos Publications).
• The destruction of 14 Focke-Wulf Ta 152's at Cottbus-Neuhausen on 16 January 1945 plus a short piece about the Gefechtsverband Kommando der Erprobungsstellen.
• Geschwader Bongart: a detailed report of operations round Limoges on 16 June 1944 (with thanks to Georg Schlaug)
• Kommando Koch: specifications of the Karl I and II jamming transmitters.
• Listening and Jamming: specifications of the Kettenhund, Nervtöter and Starnberg jamming transmitters.
• 1.(F)100: some addtions about flights and movements in late April/early May 1945 and to the order of battle at Appendix 3.
• Nachtjagdstaffel Norwegen:figures for monthly allocations of night fighters.
• SG 4 in Italy: note about the fate of Horst Wegener of 7./JG 53.