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Re: 4/schlachtgeschwader 103
Einsatzstaffel/SG 103 (under 3. Fliegerschuldivision) ordered up from Metz-Frescaty for immediate operational deployment to Le Mans for a planned morning 7 June attack on invasion shipping off Caen but intercepted and decimated by Allied fighters over Voves/24 km SSE of Chartres.
Sources: ULTRA Signal XL4610; Prien, Jochen and Peter Rodeike, Jagdgeschwader 1 und 11: Einsatz in der Reichverteidigung von 1939 bis 1945; Band 2, s.1012; Dierich, Wolfgang, Die Verbände der Luftwaffe 1935-1945: Gliederungen und Kurzchroniken – Eine Dokumentation (Stuttgart, 1976), s.271. FWIW, L. |
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