[Nick Beale]

Based on a true story, as they say in Hollywood. What's the source you're quoting?

In English, Geoffrey Thomas & Barry Ketley's "KG 200, the Luftwaffe's Most Secret Unit" is the best source I know of on these operations; in German it's Günther W. »Moskau ruft Heeresgruppe Mitte …«

I guess "Bunny Hop" could be a translation of »Unternehmen Etappenhase« (which I think may be derogatory slang for someone safe in the rear echelon but maybe someone here knows for certain?). It took place in 1943–1944 and was carried out by Kommando Toska (aka Kommando Süd) at Athens-Kalamaki. That unit did have a B-17 on strength but this operation also used an He 111, the Bf 108 and a Savoia Marchetti 75.

Several of those involved were captured and you can read about them in Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre, Middle East, Reports A.14, A.15 and A.17/1944 (National Archives AIR40/3111).