Ghostbombers updates

[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.