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Re: Advice sought re KG40
ADIK report 88/1944 in respect of POWs from 1st and 2/KG40 taken on the night of 21/22-1-1944 indicate the following :- while previous POWs had said elements of 3/KG40 were converting to the He177 at Fassberg in fact only two crews of 3rd. Staffel had left Trondheim for Fassberg. After arriving they were detached from 3rd Staffel, and had left their observers at Trondheim. These observers being experienced in navigation over the sea there being a lack of such observers in the Staffel. The present strength of the 3rd. Staffel was given as eleven crews and seven the eight Fw200s.
From the above summary of this report it would appear that a planned conversion to the He177 was started but never completed, as already said 3/KG40 were still losing Fw200s at the end of March 1944.
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