Re: NAGr.12 :: 08/08/1944 :: losses
Hello Nick.
I've finally managed to go through all of HW5 series for 1944, it took me a few years and I've been taking out any info on LW and Allied ops over Yugoslavia.
The volume of decrypted traffic suddenly drops from June '44 onwards, only to pick up for one month period (late October, early November '44 with a pullout from Greece).
Although ops reports of NAGr.12 (Stab and 2. Staffel) persist, there are no detailed loss reports and other snippets.
With regard to a loss I ask about, it is mentioned in ops summary for this day - 2nd rotte, task from 15.00 to 15.45, recce of Italian coast, set upon by Allied fighters and had to break off the task [HW5/557/T.272/60/XL5557] - and it is mentioned in strength return for this date, the first detailed one for the month of August, that one of the G-8s didn't return from ops against enemy, W.Nr. already mentioned. [HW5/561/R.276(B)/1]. Hopefully, somebody might clarify this for me one day.
Cheers!
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