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[ClydeWigg3]

Originally Posted by Tony Kambic

Joe Baugher's data:

42-5717 (306th BG, 423rd BS) shot down by fighter over
Ploermal Feb 16, 1943. MACR 15472. 6 KIA, 2 POW, 2 evaded

From Tony Wood:

16.02.43 Fw. Franz Dörre: 5 9./JG 26
B-17 2 km. S.W. Ploemeur: 5.500 m. S.W. Lorient 11.20
Reference: JG 26 MSS Lists

16.02.43 Uffz. Erich Schwarz: 2 9./JG 26
B-17 6-10 km. W. Ploërmel: 1.500 m. 11.25
Reference: JG 26 MSS Lists

There were 7 KIA, 1 POW and 2 Evaded. I have information on the crash, from a surviour, and I have pictures that were taken by the French. What I would like is German accounts of all 13 missions they flew. Thank you.

[DavidIsby]

A translation of one of the contemporaneous German accounts of intercepting a USAAF attack on the U-boat ports (which saw the introduction of the head-on attack on bomber formations) appears in Adolf Galland, et al, THE LUFTWAFFE FIGHTER FORCE: A VIEW FROM THE COCKPIT, London, 1997, Greenhill.

Suggest you also look at Prien's JG 26 history, but seeking German accounts of each raid is an unrealistic expectation.

[ClydeWigg3]

Originally Posted by DavidIsby

A translation of one of the contemporaneous German accounts of intercepting a USAAF attack on the U-boat ports (which saw the introduction of the head-on attack on bomber formations) appears in Adolf Galland, et al, THE LUFTWAFFE FIGHTER FORCE: A VIEW FROM THE COCKPIT, London, 1997, Greenhill.

Suggest you also look at Prien's JG 26 history, but seeking German accounts of each raid is an unrealistic expectation.

Thank you. I don't expect to find an account of every raid, I was thinking that maybe some of the pilots might have kept a diary that would detail some of their missions - much as some of our air crews did.

I have "JG 26 Top Guns of the Luftwaffe" by Donald Caldwell, New York, 1991, Ivy Books. Caldwell provides some personal accounts from the Luftwaffe. This has helped me match a few German pilot's with the bombers they shot down. I'm thinking this will make by story a little more interesting.

Thank you for the advice and book source.