[Chris Goss]

Very confused in respect of II./KG 26 those nights.

He 111 H-3, 3318 1H+FP 6./KG 26 crashed on take off from Gilze Rijen killing Lt Siegfried Balthes and crew. Date was changed from 4 to 5 Sep 40 and what else is written is very hard to decipher.
He 111 H-3 5707 1H+JM 4./KG 26 crashed near Amsterdam killing Uffz Wilhelm Henningsen and Fw Rudolf Höper. Date changed from 4 to 5 Sep. Cause not certain
He 111 H-4, 3207 (3287?) 1H+AM 4./KG 26. Missing from attack on East Coast 4 Sep 40. Uffz Erwin Ewerts and crew missing.
He 111 5./KG 26 Uffz Franz Nowak killed no aircraft damage
He 111 H-3, 6896, 1H+BC Stab II./KG 26. Uffz Karl Stenzel & crew missing. Date changed from 4 to 5 Sep

It would appear that two more aircraft collided and were damaged at Gilze and two more suffered burst tyres. No mention of anything being destroyed by RAF aircraft over Holland. In fact the only He 111 to be shot down at night by the RAF was a Stab I./KG 1 machine at 0110 hrs on 5 Sep 40.
Then on 6 Sep, two aircraft returned damaged by Flak and crash-landed at Gilze while another crash-landed near Calais. The 9./KG 26 loss was apparently non-combat and in Germany while none of the 2./KG 26 and II./KG 26 losses down for 6 Sep 40 support being lost or damaged in an air attack on home base