5 October 1944 - BR 21

[Jochen Prien]

Gentlemen,

on 5 October 1944 according to official German sources 14 fighters flew attacks on vehicle and troop concentrations in Belgium using BR21 Werfergranaten and losing one a/c.

The question is: to which unit did these fighters belong and which unit still used BR21 at this stage ? From the loss returns only two candidates are known, one from I./JG2 and the other from I./JG11.

Has anybody out there got more information and is willing to share it with me ?

KR

Jochen Prien

[Nick Beale]

Hallo Jochen,

The deciphered II. Jagdkorps daily report in ULTRA is attached, speaking of mortar operations by JG 2 "in the Aachen area" — which might possibly include Belgium, I suppose.

[Andrew Arthy]

Hi,

To complement Nick's post, II. Jagdkorps orders for this day included: "Mortar Gruppen to be held in readiness to attack troop concentrations, armoured and M/T columns on roads Palenberg/Ubach and Scherpenseel/Palenberg/Ubach. Crews to study maps thoroughly."

Cheers,
Andrew A.
Air War Publications - www.airwarpublications.com/earticles

[Jochen Prien]

Dear Nick,
dear Andrew,

spot on - many thanks !

Best

Jochen

[Kaczmarek]

Dear gents,

which a/c from J.G. 2 was lost with the date of 5 Oct 44 ?

Rgds,
Kaczmarek

[RT]

No casualties probably..

To note that the JG277 seems to hv made same job on the Arnhem-Nijmegen area,this time with 54 planes lossing 3 planes

Rémi

[John Beaman]

Remi, are you sure about the designation JG277?

[RT]

JG27 Pretty sure

JG277 ?? YOu don't know, John, the Versuchsgeschw. for the new multi-geared
Me 277 ,,??

Rémi