Bf 109 H in service with 5.(F)/123

[Chris Going]

Just a few observations around the margins on this one, as it were: Oblt Kaiser of 5/123 flew a photographic sortie on June 7th 1944 (F30/44) during which standoff imagery was taken of the Allied shipping off Pagham harbour. Frames 872 and 873 of this sortie -obliques with a mid range scale of 1:12000 approx- were roughly mosaiced together to accompany an Intelligence Report (No 3478, Lfl 3 - Interpreter, Kallenberger). Clearly a single engined a/c involved. But not likely to be the H -or might it be?

Other covers of the bridge-head include Utah beach on June 12th (by I Nag 13; F66 and F67/44); and on the same day, an east-west strip including Pegasus bridge (F13/66) - pilot Oblt Geiger. All three sorties generated Intel reps. The numbers on June 12th (rising from F13 to F66) suggest Nag 13 at least was very busy that day, and doubtless other too. Some night stuff was also taken within a week or two south of Sword and Juno. Buried in this F sequence might be something taken by the 'H'.

Cheers


ChrisG