Thread: Allied fighter-bombers over Baltic Sea 3/4.Feb.1945?
View Single Post
  #2  
Old 16th December 2015, 21:50
andy bird andy bird is offline
Senior Member
  
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Pembrokeshire & Berkshire
Posts: 768
andy bird is an unknown quantity at this point
Re: Allied fighter-bombers over Baltic Sea 3/4.Feb.1945?
Hi Andrey,

The Mosquitos (at Banff) didn't get their long-range 1000 gallon external drop tanks properly fitted until March 1945. Could have been Beaufighter's from North Coates, don't have the ORB to hand. From memory the Wing were doing harassment patrols against E-Boats at night with Naval MTBs in those waters around that time.

Boat was part of 11. Unterseebootsjagdflottille Formed in Flensburg in Schleswig-Holstein in September 1939 and until the summer of 1941 was employed in the Baltic, then The Kattegatt, Skagerrak, North Sea, then back in the Baltic. Additionally it was employed in Norwegian Waters, Kristiansand & the Norwegian Polar and West Coasts.

Regards

Andy Bird
Reply With Quote