Ghostbombers updates

[Nick Beale]

I've just posted the following additions and updates to my website:

• The third instalment of the Geschwader Bongart article, covering August–September 1944, plus an assessment of the unit's operations, a list of known aircraft, and sources and acknowledgements. I've also made various smaller additions to the earlier instalments.
• NAG 6 and the Me 262: information about the posting of 37 men from NAG 9 to Einsatzkommando Braunegg in Lechfeld.
• Jagdruppe 200: two new pages about Uffz. Walter Lang; more detail of sorties flown on 9 June 1944; more about Uffz. Walter Cöster's demise on 7 August 1944; brief additions covering anti-partisan operations on 15 June 5 July 1944.
• Addition to the Geschwader recognition bands article of an ULTRA message on security during a move by elements of JG 3.
• Staffel Kaatsch: Werk Nummer added for an aircraft damaged on a mission on 29 August 1944 and amendments to one appendix.
• Various minor corrections and layout changes.

[ouidjat]

Hi Nick,

Thank you very much for the work you are doing.

Best regards, Franck.

[John Beaman]

Thanks for your continuing hard work, Nick. You are one of the few people who appreciate the importance of ULTRA sources in the history of WWII.

Frankly, no one should write a story about anything in the ETO, without sourcing ULTRA. You've done that!

[Nick Beale]

More material posted to Ghost Bombers today, as follows:

• Jagdgruppe 200: addition to 18 August 1944.
  
• Staffel Kaatsch: complete revision of the unit's formative days (18–25 August 1944) plus an expanded discussion of its aircraft inventory.
  
• Geschwader Bongart: extensive additions throughout the article about attacks on further locations (including Abondance, Thônes, Les Villards and Rieumes) by the unit itself and by II./KG 26 and III./KG 100; more about Westa 2's He 177s and more Bongart aircraft identified.

[Nick Beale]

I've just posted a series of updates to my web site, quite a lot of which seem to involve Bf 109s:

• A new article about aircraft lost in air raids: by III./JG 26 (Nancy, 25 May 1944); JG 27 (Angers/Soucelles, 26 June 1944); and E-Stelle Karlshagen (9 July 1944).
• Jagdgruppe 200: an addition to the events of 12 July 1944 and more about Bf 109 G-6 W.Nr. 163552.
• More about the Bf 109s of 3./NAG 13 (W.Nr. 710000 series) in Spring/Summer 1944.
• Staffel Kaatsch: more about the history of Bf 109 G-6 W.Nr. 163161.
• Geschwader Bongart: two "target flights" on 27 January 1944; a "new" Re. 2002 mission on 24 June; more about Ju 88 C-6 W.Nr. 750886 and 750952, He 111 W.Nr. 5113, Bf 109 G-5 W.Nr. 110395 and "Bf 109 G-12" WNr. 360930 (thanks to Ed North); an operation on 16 August (thanks to Philippe Cannone); another loss from 2./ZG 1 on 7 June 1944; more about III./KG 100's attack on the Forêt de Rieumes on 17 July; and a final(?) mention of the Geschwader on 15 December 1944.
• Minor corrections and editing.