Losses of I./KG 26 on 15 April 1944 at Flensburg

[Doug Stankey]

I don't know the source but the Steenbeck book about KG 26 ("Die Spur des Löwen") lists 10 losses at Flensburg that day due to "Tieffliegerbeschuss" but no other details. No archival sources are listed.

The Rudi Schmidt book ("Achtung - Torpedos Los!") doesn't list a/c losses at all! There are personnel losses listed in some detail but apparently none occurred that date!

Larry deZeng's notes about this state that all the losses were from the Einsatzstaffel (apparently out of I./KG 26) which had just arrived 3 days before when attacked by 4 P-51s, resulting in all 9 a/c being destroyed. No source for this information is noted.

Thus the source(s) for information concerning this incident seem to be obscure. Your speculations sound reasonable but I suspect that Ultra was not involved or Larry would have noted it. American records seem the most likely.


DGS