Need Info On Luftwaffe After Action Reports

[FrancisM]

Hello,

you will find some details about the 21st May 1943 in my book "Die Jäger der Graf Zeppelin" ISBN 3-0000-8220-4.
This book is a much enlarged and refined version of my original Sea Eagles published by Air Research in 1994, now long out of print.
See
www.marshall-verlag.homepage.t-online.de
for more details

Francis

[John Manrho]

Art,

you need MACR 16173. A/C crashed near Canarienhausen/Waddewarden near Emden, Germany. 3 KIA, 7 POW. Probably shot down by 2./JG 27. See also link to Tony Wood site here on this site.

Regards,

John

[FrancisM]

Hello,
I have a German report which gives the identity of a crashed Fortress as 23214, so this is certainly the one that came down at Canarienhausen which is a tiny hamlet NE of the village of Waddewarden, itself NE of Jever.
The report gives few details, 6 prisoners, 2 dead and the time as 12:46.
You are unlikely to find any precise details about Luftwaffe claims for this day. 12 bombers were shot down and over 20 claims made. Many of these were at 6000 or 7000m altitude, so assigning specific losses to specific pilots is very difficult, very little of the documentation survived the war, some of this is to be found in archives in the UK, the USA and even some in Germany.
Good luck in your research, the US archives are as good a place to start as any.

Francis