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With the invasion underway sorties against RAF night bombers were flown only sporadically eg 5 July at 0150 hours Ofw. Kahlhammer reported the downing of a four-engine bomber which crashed at La Longpré...SKG 10, operating G-3s and G-8s, had flown some 3000 sorties over Normandy by the middle of August 1944, for the loss of 20 machines before being withdrawn to München-Gladbach.. I./SKG 10 pilot Wolfgang Zebrowski covered this period in his memoir "Nachts über den Wolken"...
"..night after night, and less frequently by day, we were tasked with attacking enemy troop formations, vehicle convoys and artillery positions in the bridgehead between Saint-Lô and Caen. The dropping of parachute flares, two of which we carried under each wing, would reveal our targets. We then flew strafing passes, unleashing salvoes of cannon fire before jettisoning our bombs on any worthwhile target that we could make out. We were told that our sorties brought some reassurance and respite to our hard-pressed ground forces. It was however very difficult to locate our objectives since the front line was particularly fluid..."
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