[Henofred]

Hi/Bonjour,

I found all the names of Fw. Walter Merz crew in the book quoted in source with the excerpt below. Hence my surprise!

We are talking here about the loss of an He 111 of the T.G. 30 but the crew of Fw. Merz seems to belong to the K.G. 55 (according to the book : 8. Staffel). So ? A crew from the latter unit, flying on a plane belonging to the T.G. 30? The unit that oversees these missions?

Testimony Wilhelm Mylius - On 11 September at 20.00 hours we took off for the first time from Zellhausen to Strassburg, a staging airfield, where the crews received flight instructions and target documents, while the technicians loaded the machines with supply containers. [source: Kampfgeschwader 55 "Greif", Wolfgang Dierich – 1975]

Best regards,
Frederic