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Originally Posted by kalender1973
Hello,
I don't undestand, what the role play the unit, that Ju-52 lost. It is clear, that on 8th may the german send 35 Ju's and other planes to evacuate the wounded soldiers. From this 35 only 3 arrive it distination point and the eyewithneses say, the most other were shut down by soviet figthers.
My source is Fritz Morzik book "Deursche Transportflieger im Zweiten Weltkrieg". And IIRC his source was not Kurowskii(I can pricise this later). And it is also clear, that we will no have other document evidence, such GQM Meldunge, because GQM doesn't exist at that time.
We could say 70 claims against 25 losses, normally overclaiming rate.
Best Regards,
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Morzik was a leading officer in the Luftwaffes air transport organization. He even wrote a report for the US-"GAF-history". So, he should have more first-hand data on that. Kurowskis book on Kurland reports about this:
- 35Ju42 coming from Norway morning 8th
- loading wounded and family fathers (text a bit pathetic...)
- are attacked by >100 VVS fighters and IL-2 (not very plausible)
- only 2 returned to the Reich @ low, rest: no survivors
- JG54 couldn't help as it was already ordered to fly to Kiel in the early morning.
Andrey, can you give details on which VVS-KBF units were involved?