Analysing survival rates among Luftwaffe air crew in 'Steinbock' and other operations

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Originally Posted by Nick Beale

the British sometimes had to guess the intended target.

..so Ultra wasn't providing objectives/targets for each night along with the forces to be deployed ?

re the lack of experience of the KG crews - on 18 April a KG 66 Ju 188 was shot-down by day over the UK, the crew transferring for a night mission thought they were still over the Continent..