III./JG 53 claims and losses, May 1944
 

At http://www.ghostbombers.com/updates.html the latest additions are mainly concerned with combats by III./JG 53 21, 23, 24 & 25 May 1944, including details of three claims for Marauders either shot down or "effectively shot up" by Vacano, Götz and Landt.

Plus:

A report from the Hermann Göring Pz. Div. on the discovery and burial of the body of SG 4's Oblt. Robert Reiprich on 21 May.

Addtional details about I./JG 77 and 2./NAG 11's actions on 27 May 1944, including confirmation that the Bf 109 shot down by the 111th TRS (thanks to a crash report giving time, place and the Bf 109's unit).

A fragment of information added about Lt. Bell, Staffelkapitän of 2./JG 200 and (later) [i]Staffel Kaatsch[\I].