[Johannes]

Hi Keith

Seems the Luftwaffe claimed fifty-nine aircraft during the day(a few in the Southern front), many by NJG units. Trouble is that the daily mikrofilm entries for January 1944 are missing. However there is a type of mikrofilm that gives date and time only for individual units, so basically the names of the claimant, type e.t.c need to be acquired, this is mostly done by flugbücher.

Units are:-

1./SKG10 a B-17 at 1236 hrs South of Courtrai at 4000 metres(a Staffel claim)
9./JG2 B-24 at 1104 hrs 7000 metres by Josef Wurmheller
Stab.II./JG2 P-47 at 1115 hrs 1000 metres by Kurt Bühligen
7./JG2 P-47 at 1130 hrs 7000 metres Paul Marx
11./JG2 P-47 1236 hrs 5000 metres by Heinz Lorbeer
9./JG2 unknown type 1230 hrs(unknown pilot)
7./JG3 B-17 1107 hrs Franz Birnstill
7./JG3 B-17 x 2 1106 & 1114 hrs Kurt Graf
7./JG3 B-17 1117 hrs Gerhard Pankalla
8./JG3 B-17 1111 hrs Bruno Bolowski
8./JG3 B-17 1137 hrs Hans Hedermann
8./JG3 1110 hrs Raimund Koch
9./JG3 B-17 1100 hrs Heinz Papendick
Stab.III./JG3 B-17 1107 hrs Walter Dahl
Stab.III./JG3 B-17 1117 hrs Jürgen Hoerschelmann
Stab.III./JG3 B-17 1127 hrs Erwin Stahlberg
2./JG26 P-38 1115-1145 hrs(thirty minute combat) Hans Hartigs
2./JG26 B-17 x 2 1115-1145 hrs & 1152-1210 hrs Weide
4./JG26 "viermot" 1152-1210 hrs e.v(unknown pilot)
4./JG26 B-17 1152-1210 hrs Wolfgang Neu
7./JG26 P-47 1240 hrs Wilhelm Mayer
7./JG26 B-24 1124 hrs Stahnke
8./JG26 B-17 1330 hrs Wilhelm Hofmann
8./JG26 B-24 1145 hrs Rudolf Leuschel
8./JG26 P-47 1230 hrs Erich Lindner
8./JG26 P-38 1150 hrs Talkenberg
8./JG26 B-17 1130 hrs Josef Zirngibl
Stab.I./JG26 B-17 1105 hrs Karl Borris
Stab.I./JG26 B-17 1245 hrs Kurt Kranefeld
4./JG27 P-38 1145-1150 hrs Karl Mentnich
5./JG27 B-17 1052 hrs Karl-Heinz Bendert
5./JG27 B-17 1140 hrs Eberhard Schade
5./JG27 B-17 1106 hrs Heinz Schlechter
Stab.II./JG27 B-17 1102 hrs Werner Schroer
5./NJG6 B-17 e.v 1155 hrs Karl-Heinz Grünert
5./NJG6 P-47 x 2 1150 & 1155 hrs Robert Krohn
5./NJG6 P-38 x 2 1150 & 1155 hrs Nitterl
1./ZG76 1137 hrs(no other details
1./ZG76 1139 hrs(no other details)
1./ZG76 1141 hrs(no other details)
1./ZG76 1146 hrs(no other details)
2./ZG76 1135 hrs(no other details)
2./ZG76 1139 hrs(no other details)
2./ZG76 1142 hrs(no other details)
Stab./ZG76 1140 hrs(no other details)
Stab.III./ZG76 1152 hrs(no other details)
4./ZG76 1144 hrs(type unknown) Heinrich Leitz
5./ZG76 1140 hrs(no other details)
6./ZG76 1140 hrs(no other details)
6./ZG76 1142 hrs(no other details)
6./ZG76 1145 hrs(no other details)

Others at night, or by JG51 & JG53 in the south.

There are some excellent books you should get JG26 by Don Caldwell, JG2 by Erik Mombeek and various others by Jochen Prien.

Kind Regards

Johannes