[James A Pratt III]

I understand in the opening days of operation Barbarossa a number of Luftwaffe aircraft were lost because the SD-2 and SD-10 bombs they were using either stuck in their containers or racks and exploded in the aircraft on the way home. I would say it resulted in the loss of a number of KG 51s Ju 88s. Any one have any more info on these losses I understand JG 27 and JG 77 also dropped some during this period. Any one have any more info on this?

Also on 4 May 1941 the Italian cargo ship Birmania had some of these bombs as part of it's cargo when one or more of them exploded which detonated it's cargo of bombs ect which destroyed the ship and the nearby cargo ship the Citta de Bari and doing a lot of damage to the port of Tripoli.