Anklam bombed by the Luftwaffe on 29 April 1945

[Andrey Kuznetsov]

Hi Marcel,

Originally Posted by Marcel van Heijkop

My sources are the Flugbuch (FB) entries of 9 different Besatzungen (crews) involved in these attacks. (NB If the Russian report mentions 10 Ju 88s, 9 FB entries of such a small unit 75 years later isn't such a bad score )

Absolutely amazing!

Originally Posted by Marcel van Heijkop

"Um 21:03 Uhr Bomben lagen im Ziel. Strassenausgang südöstlich Anklam".

Interesting. Maybe Soviet units used a local time. Should be checked.

Originally Posted by Marcel van Heijkop

MSK = Moscow Standart Time, but what's DSZ? German Summer Time?

Yes

Best regards,
Andrey

[Dan History]

Originally Posted by Marcel van Heijkop

Question: Does 30 April 145 stand for the date these reports were published but do they actually refer to the actions the day before (i.e. 29 April)?

Marcel, your understanding is correct. The early morning report for 30 April report summarised known events up to that time, so those that occurred during the previous night. It is less obvious why the evening report for 30 April still includes this information, but it could be they simply used the morning report as a basis, so the information was simply carried over.

Regards,

Dan

[Marcel van Heijkop]

Originally Posted by Dan History

Marcel, your understanding is correct. The early morning report for 30 April report summarised known events up to that time, so those that occurred during the previous night. It is less obvious why the evening report for 30 April still includes this information, but it could be they simply used the morning report as a basis, so the information was simply carried over.

Regards,

Dan

Thanks for the confirmation Dan!

Marcel