31st March 2019, 19:24
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Re: Using Ultra to research the Luftwaffe
Updates for 31 March 2019 are:
- Geschwader Bongart: additional material regarding Glières; a "special operation" by 9./SG 4 from Valence on 5 June 1944; the Battle of Guéret (thanks to the continuing efforts of Philippe Canonne); the later career of Bongart's Obltn. Higgelke, Kapitän of the 13. Staffel; a Kriegsmarine reference to Operation CADILLAC; sorties against Murat on 15 August.
- I./JG 2 in Italy: extracts from Ob. SW daily situation reports.
- Kommando Koch: various additions, mainly about No. 89 Squadron operations from Malta.
- Kommando Rastedter: more about Thetis decoys (January 1944) Naxos (February) and the vulnerability of Allied systems (March).
- Invasion Watch: several additions from Kriegsmarine sources including reconnaissance results from the early months of 1944.
- Staffel Kaatsch: various small additions including reconnaissance of the Franco-Italian border by Luftflotte 2 in August 1944.
- JGr. 200: a table of pilots' victory clams.
- III./SG 4 and the Battle for Normandy: expanded to include (amongst other things) more about live-fire exercises early in 1944 and operations in response to the Invasion.
- Kampfgruppe 100, the first weeks in France: various additiona including a German assessment of the first attack on Castle Bromwich.
- KGr. 100 and the Coventry Blitz: German reports on damage casued by Operation Medium; figures for bomb tonnages dropped on Coventry and Birmingham; some duplicated material removed.
- Kampfflieger Vol. 4: a German communiqué about a raid on Hull; the attack on Paris, 26 August 1944, additions about AA and civil defences.
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