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Old 27th August 2009, 15:31
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Re: Change in Bombing Priorites 1941

Perhaps an irrelevant point, but regarding Germerheim (Germersheim), I have two citations for it in our history of NSGr. 20:

NSGr. 20
11 November: transferred to Germersheim to support Heeresgruppe G along the upper Rhine area but thick fog prevented operations.
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13 January: transferred from Limburg-Linter to Germersheim for assignment to II. Jagdkorps, then returned to Bonn-Hangelar on 27 January.

Sources:
(1) ULTRA signals HP7399, BT521, BT930, BT1264, BT2025, BT2074, BT3777, KO2010.
(1) Schwendtmayer flight log.
(3) Möller, Christian. Die Einsätze der Nachtschlachtgruppen 1, 2 und 20 an der Westfront von September 1944 bis Mai 1945 – Mit einem Überblick über Entstehung und Einsatz der Störkampf- und Nachtschlachtgruppen der deutschen Luftwaffe von 1942 bis 1944. Aachen: Helios Verlag- und Buchvertriebsgesellschaft, 2008. ISBN: 978-3-938208-67-0.

So Germersheim did see some use by NSGr. 20 but not at the time of the attack under discussion, as Nick pointed out.
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