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Re: JU52's at Leros 1943
Peter
I don't know if you've read 'Churchill's Folly' by Anthony Rogers, but this is a pretty detailed English language account of the 1943 Aegean fighting.
For I./Fallschirmager-Rgt,2 it confirms the commanders for 1, 2 and 4 Kompanies, but doesn't identify the one for 3 Kompanie.
As for the Ju52/3 operations, it gives the number as about 36 aircraft for the parachute drop on the 12th November (apparently elements of I/TG4 and II/TG4). Only one transport was lost on this day (Identified as Wnr 6763 from I/TG4- three killed and one recovered)
During follow up parachute operations on the 13th two more transports were lost (both from II/TG4; Wnr 640187 - All crew ok and 6799 - one killed, one taken prisoner and three ok)
On the 14th one more transport was shotdown (from II/TG2 - Wnr 7607 -two killed) and another was badly damaged, but able to return (from II/TG2 - Wnr4046 - one killed).
Regards
Steve Pegge
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