Intruder activity October 5th/6th 1944

[Steve Smith]

Hi,

Can anyone confirm if there was any German intruder activity over East Anglia on the above date. I have an intruder alert was given to returning crews from Saarbrucken.

TIA

Steve

[Chris Goss]

Steve: Should be on the Luftwaffe board. Bit late for intruders as the Me 410s were otherwise engaged over France and the Low Countries. They did return en masse in March 1945 though...

[Laurent Rizzotti]

Intruders are unlikely at this time of the war, but this same night He 111 were off East Anglia to launch V-1s towards London. One of them was shot down 50 miles off Great Yarmouth.

[Nick Beale]

The Me 410 intruder unit, II./KG 51, was either converting to the Me 262 in Bavaria or about to go there by this time.

There were V-1s plotted inbound, following launches off the Dutch coast by 11 Heinkels of III./KG 3.

[Steve Smith]

Gents,

Thank you all. Would the He111 been classed as an intruder, and would have it affected returning Bomber Command aircraft from landing in the region?

Thanks again.

regards

Steve

[Chris Goss]

Not as such but it would be a potential incursion into U.K. Airspace albeit they would not get close to the coast. Their targets were not airfields but major cities