Perhaps the last question on the forum - The Battle of Heligoland Bight, 18 December 1939

[Dan History]

Dear all, I am, of course, very sad that it appears that this forum, Twelve O'Clock High, is disappearing. A few members have helped me over the years, some very considerably, and TOCH has always been the place to ask a complicated question on any of a variety of themes of aviation history during the Second World War. Thanks are due to forum owner Ruy Horta, moderators Nick Beale and John Beaman, and too many individual forum members to list by name. I still owe several specific people e-mails, and those will finally be coming very soon. For the moment, I am in the process of completing yet another article about the Luftwaffe, this time a brief but far from superficial overview of the Battle of Heligoland Bight of 18 December 1939. The basics are well known - of 24 RAF Wellington bombers which flew to attack Kriegsmarine warships that day; two turned back, 12 were shot down, and three never flew again. Can anyone provide a full list of Luftwaffe claims for aerial victories on that day? Several very famous pilots reported successes, including Falck, Gollob, Steinhoff and Lent. Donald Caldwell's history of JG 26 reports the claims of Steinhoff's Staffel, but there does not appear to be a readily available list of all the claims made that day. I can always be reached on my Substack, The New World Crisis: https://newworldcrisis.substack.com/ My two latest articles are the following: 80 years after VE-Day, the West still has not learned to pre-empt disaster https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sy1fohygxe How Churchill’s Successor Gave Stalin the MiG https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/h...ave-stalin-mig Regards and good luck to all! Dan