Ghostbombers updates

[Karl]

Dear Nick,

thank you for continuing the updates on ghostbombers.com. Relating to the sorties of Kommando Schenck on 27th of August 1944 here the entry from the logbook of Fw "Ronny" Lauer: 9K+GL, take off and landing: Juvincourt. 14.50-15.40 h. Remarks: Stadt Melun.

Best wishes, Karl

[Nick Beale]

Tonight's updates to my website are:

• Markings and camouflage section rebuilt and expanded, including a five-page article on Jagdgeschwader recognition bands.
• Added to the Kommando Schenck article: information on Ofw. Lauer's mission of 27 August 1944 (courtesy of TOCH member "Karl").

[SEAN RYAN]

Hi Nick, thanks for the updates and your excellent site. I thought the requests from KG66 for black and blue paint for it's new Ju88's was very interesting. I'm afraid I took the liberty of putting a post about this on the LEMB as I was wondering whether anyone else found this fascinating message you had found during the course of your research as interesting as I do ?

Has anyone else got any thoughts on this ?

Regards, Sean.

[Nick Beale]

Today is the eighth anniversary of www.ghostbombers.com going live, marked by these updates:

• Kampfflieger Vol. 4: organisation diagrams for KG 200, February 1944–January 1945.
• An addition to the list of my "complete works."
• Reorganisation of the homepage with six shorter articles now grouped as "Luftwaffe miscellany."
• More about IX. Fliegerkorps' attack on Soissons on the night of 30-31 August 1944.
• More detail of the shooting down and capture of Uffz. Helmut Breitweg of 1./JG 2.
• Operation Dragoon: more about one Me 410 of 1.(F)/33.
• Nachtjagdstaffel Norwegen article: addition of the date when the unit's He 219 was collected from I./NJG 1 (courtesy of Marcel Hogenhuis) and a little more about a sortie on the night of 11/12 April 1945.
• A small addition to the article on Jagdgeschwader recognition bands, thanks to David E. Brown.
• Note added to the 1.(F)/100 article about a possible error in a report of one operation (courtesy of forum member Stefan Lahres).
• Minor corrections throughout.

[SES]

Hi Nick,
I always enjoy your up-dates and the valuable work you do on the less well covered facets and areas of operations of the Luftwaffe. I have a specific question to the Nachtjagdstaffel Norwegen article, do you have the German expression for this:
Kristiansand-South (also the location of a “fighter area battle HQ”) ?
kind regards
SES

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by SES

Hi Nick,
I have a specific question to the Nachtjagdstaffel Norwegen article, do you have the German expression for this:
Kristiansand-South (also the location of a “fighter area battle HQ”) ?
kind regards
SES

I'm sorry but I don't. That is a problem with British intelligence material, you often have to try and guess what the original German words were.

[SES]

Hi Nick,
Understand what you mean. There is an excellent British post war intel report on the Luftwaffe Funkaufklärings Dienst. It took ages to read it, as I had to try and figure out what each operational, technical and unit term would be in German.
Well the background for my question was, that I am on the hunt for an Abschnitt Flugmelde Zentrale in the Kristiansand area, which had scramble authority and intercept control facilities, but even with tremendous help from Norwegian colleges it remains un-located.
For an in depth explanation please see:
http://www.gyges.dk/luftwaffe_ln%20norway.htm
bregds
SES

[ju55dk]

This probably goes all the way back to april 1940. In order not to mix up Kristiansund and Kristiansand, in Ultra, the first one was called -North and the other -South. So Kristiansand-south is just Kristiansand.

Junker

Originally Posted by SES

Hi Nick,
I always enjoy your up-dates and the valuable work you do on the less well covered facets and areas of operations of the Luftwaffe. I have a specific question to the Nachtjagdstaffel Norwegen article, do you have the German expression for this:
Kristiansand-South (also the location of a “fighter area battle HQ”) ?
kind regards
SES

[SES]

Hi Jørn,
I'm on the hunt for AFMZ Kristiansand, and Nicks latest up-date seems to confirm my suspission of it's function as a "mini-Jafü".
And BTW it would aslo be nice to be able to locate the Gef.Std.
bregds
SES

[Nick Beale]

Today's updates are:

• Several additions to the Markings and Camouflage pages including Jagdgeschwader recognition markings, Mediterranean theatre markings and miscellaneous markings (e.g. captured aircraft).
  
• Information on the later service of Uffz. Kuhlmann of Staffel Kaatsch and a little more about the Staffel's Bf 109 G-6 W.Nr. 412169.
  
• Added information on operations by Jagdgruppe 200 on 1 July 1944 and about belated measures to formalise the unit's establishment. Also a link to a photograph of wreckage from a 3./JGr. 200 aircraft lost on 12 August 1944.
  
• More on 1.(F)/100's tasks for 7 April 1945.
  
• A note on Ultra Air Digests.