Staka 3./ZG 26 (again)

[Chris Goss]

Chris

I believe that Spies took over 1/ZG 26 after Kogler. Oblt Wolfgang Graf von Hoensbroech's name is mentioned for 1 Staffel but I have this chap as a Leutnant killed with 13/KG 40 on 8 Sep 42 so Josef would be more likely. I have no names after Kirchoff's demise. If you are interested, I have 2 original photos of the crash-landed Bf 110 on the beach. According to Lt Joachim Koepsel's (1/ZG 26 to 19 Aug 40 and then 3/ZG 26 until POW 27 Sep 40) Flugbuch, the St Kap who signed his logbook off after his capture was a Hptm which could not have been Josef von Hoensbroech who as still an Oblt in Feb 42. The confusion arises in that H wrote to the relatives of a crew lost 11 Aug 40-Kogler was recovering from being shot down the same day so perhaps there was a gap between then and Spies taking over. Spies was then wounded a month later still as St Kap of 1/ZG 26. Like Koepsel moving to 3 Staffel after 18 Aug 40, perhaps he accompanied Hoensbroech but that still doesn't explain who signed the logbook. H doesn't figure after 1942-perhaps this is why?

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