B-26 unit operating in Arnhem area 25.09.44

[Nokose]

Can anyone advise what B-26 unit was operating in the area of Arnhem and Nijmegen on 25.09.44? Also what losses were suffered (shot down and poss. damaged)?

[FrankieS]

Hi !

Are you sure about the date 25.09.44 ???

Maybe 30.09.44 ?

See here for daily summaries (maybe not complete though):
http://paul.rutgers.edu/~mcgrew/wwii...ml/Sep.44.html

good luck,
bye
FrankieS

[Nokose]

Wood's list states that they were Mitchell's and it was on 25.09.44 but I read another source stating that they were Mauraders.

[Henk Welting]

Mitchell means RAF and 98 Sqn lost FW194 and FW211 that date in the province of Gelderland where Arnhem is located.
Henk.

[Nokose]

Henk are they B-26's or 25's in 98 Sqn? Also did the RAF lose any other Mitchell's in the surrounding areas that day? Tony Woods list has 4 going down from 1801-1805. Three loses give 52/23/3 and 52/23/8 as locations but 1 as Arnheim.

[Henk Welting]

B26 is a Marauder; B25 is a Mitchell. The Mitchell-file only has two losses on this date, the two mentioned in my previous message, which were part of the 2nd TAF.
Henk.

[Nokose]

Henk, Thanks for the reply. It looks like a overclaim against the 98 sqn and a later mistake about the type.

[Jaap Vermeer]

Hello,

On the 23 of September and on the 24 of September were two B-26
crashes in Holland,but not on the 25,

regards Jaap

[Nokose]

Hello Jaap, Can you tell me the units that lost the B-26's and the maybe the cause?

Regards, Nokose

[hewasahero]

'Top Secret Bird' by Maj. Wolfgang Späte (in its German original as 'Der Streng Geheime Vogel') resolves the issue. At the time that Späte saw the two Mitchells, he'd never seen them before and refers to them as 'Marauder-type twin-engined bombers' in a comparison with the B-26 which he knew. Unfortunately the translation into English is fluffed, and is rendered as 'Marauder', not 'Marauder-type', causing a confusion in the reader that the author neither experienced not intended.