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Re: The Guy who shot my father down
Hello Tom -
4./ZG 26 belonged to II./ZG 26 along with 5. and 6./ZG 26. These three Staffeln (Squadrons) and the Gruppenstab (the staff personnel of II. Gruppe) were all based at Hesepe airfield, an operational airfield (Einsatzhafen) in Lower Saxony 22.4 km NW of Osnabrück, 5.6 km NW of Bramsche and 1.6 km NNW of the village of Hesepe. On 29 Novenber 1943, II. Gruppe was equipped with the Me 410 A-1 twin-engine heavy fighter. At the beginning of November they had 39 of them on strength and lost 4 in action during the month and 2 more in accidents.
The details of the air action from the German side can be found in the books by Dr. Jochen Prien, particularly the volumes covering JG 1 and JG 11, and if not there then in some of his other unit histories.
L.
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