KG200

[richdlc]

Hi guys

Can I ask, have any books on KG200 been published since the Thomas & Ketley book in 2003? Have all angles already been covered, are there any more stories to tell, in greater detail? Has any info in the last 20 years been proven to be false, and has anything else come to light?

Thanks in advance

[Graham Boak]

The Crecy book of the Do.215 contains a lot of new information on the prewar illegal overflights that preceded KG200. Does this help?

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by richdlc

Hi guys

Can I ask, have any books on KG200 been published since the Thomas & Ketley book in 2003? Have all angles already been covered, are there any more stories to tell, in greater detail? Has any info in the last 20 years been proven to be false, and has anything else come to light?

Thanks in advance

Well, I seem to remember an article in Axis Wings Vol. 1 covering one aspect! And there’s this: http://www.ghostbombers.com/Olga/olga1.html

Before Thomas & Ketley there was Günther W. Gellermann’s »Moskau ruft Heeresgruppe Mitte…«, never translated into English. That gave a very good overview of the agent-dropping aspect and clandestine recon over Russia before Barbarossa.

[richdlc]

Originally Posted by Graham Boak

The Crecy book of the Do.215 contains a lot of new information on the prewar illegal overflights that preceded KG200. Does this help?

many thanks will check it out

[richdlc]

Originally Posted by Nick Beale

Well, I seem to remember an article in Axis Wings Vol. 1 covering one aspect! And there’s this: http://www.ghostbombers.com/Olga/olga1.html

Before Thomas & Ketley there was Günther W. Gellermann’s »Moskau ruft Heeresgruppe Mitte…«, never translated into English. That gave a very good overview of the agent-dropping aspect and clandestine recon over Russia before Barbarossa.

touche! I'd overlooked that one, sorry Nick....

will check out Gellermann and your article

[Brian Bines]

There is a couple of ADIK reports from 1945 of captured Luftwaffe airmen from shot down German crewed B-17s and Peter Stahl's book KG 200 The True Story

[ju55dk]

The Mistel book from Forsyth also cover some aspects of II/KG 200.
Junker

[Nick Beale]

And I wrote about Kommando Carmen (more agent-dropping) in Air War Italy 1944–45. I'll possibly rework their story for my website someday, since I have more material now.

Accounts of the Vercors Plateau battle in July 1944 all include something about II./KG 200's Kommando Schäfer (the glider-borne assault troops) but they were pretty short-lived, absorbed into the regular parachute divisions after the retreat from France.

[Buckeye30]

I would recommend Peter Stahl's book which Brian mentioned ( a former pilot) there are very interesting original documents in the back.


Nick