[Reiner]

At first I wish all the users a Happy New Year!

Hi Ed

Thank you for your opinion and correction.


The History of Eastern Europe is not so easy as you see them. The Soviet Union won back the territory, which it lost in the war against Poland in 1920-21. This area was reannexed 1939 by the Soviet Union. During this time, the Soviet Union was also called Russia or Soviet Russia. Therefore you can call “Barbarossa “ as a war against Russia.
There are many individual opinions about this war, so you can´t say the writer or the magazine editors have no knowledge of history.
It is right that III./ KG51 had no Ju 88 A-4 in June 1941. I have not seen this error in the correction, sorry. The III.Gruppe received the first Ju 88 A-4 during the refreshing/reorganisation at Vienna in August 1941. It is also correct that the cover picture show a Ju88 A-4 from 7./KG51. This picture was taken in September 1941 at the airfield Balti, but Balti was not and is not in Ukraine!
The picture on page 66 was also taken at Balti airfield and show A-4´s.
In the appendix the original page from Poppenburg´s album with original signature.The Ju-88 are all new A-4 (WNr.5501 and WNr.5508). These serial numbers are not included in my losslist´s of KG51.The other picture show Poppenburgs 9K+GR at Lezany after the ferry flight from Wiener-Neustadt on 18.6.1941. It´s a Ju88 A-5.



Regards, Rene