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Re: Bombardment of Naples on 5-6 november 1943
According to 329 Wing RAF, Monthly Report No. 13, November 1943 …
Bomber units based in Italy at the time were I. and II./KG 30, I. and II./KG 54 and I. and II./KG 76 and "There was evidence from W/T that all (or nearly all) these Gruppen made their contribution to each of the five operations" that month.
Four of the attacks were on shipping in the Naples area and "All these sorties had the following characteristics in common:
a) An attacking force estimated to consist of 40 Ju 88s (over the target)
b) Complete W/T silence by the bombers themselves before and during the attack.
c) Weather reports for their Gruppe bases transmitted to the returning bombers.
d) A small proportion of the bombers heard homing after the attack.
… After the Naples raid of the 5th the control station of KG 76 announced that fifteen Ju 88s had landed, and that another was overdue. Unfortunately it could not be ascertained whether this announcement covered both the first and second Gruppen, or only one of them. The latter is the more likely explanation."
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