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Re: 10 May 1940-attack on Dutch airfield-which JG involved?
Hi Wybe,
Difficult, if not impossible to say exactly which unit it was.
On May 10 many units, including BF109 Gruppen, were active over western Holland. Most of these units got combined tasks of first ground attacks on carefully selected targets, followed by "freie Jagd" over the dutch airfields protecting the Junker 52 transport planes and the bombers.
The area around Soesterberg and Schiphol airfields was attacked by He111 bombers of 4./KG4 (two of these collided over Soesterberg and were lost) while being escorted by Bf109's of II./JG26. Hilversum being close to Soesterberg it is most probable that either of these units also attacked Hilversum. Now indeed the smaller airfields like Eindhoven, Gilze Rijen and Hilversum seem to have been attacked (at least during the first wave) predominantly by fighters. It is reported that Hilversum was attacked by 8 Bf109s. In that case II./JG26 seems like a good candidate. Would be interesting to see whether someone with more insight into the flight plans of this unit on May 10 can confirm this.
Regards, Pieter
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