Werner Baumbach ship destroyer

[Stig Jarlevik]

Thanks Andrew

I didn't know that. After all it must have interfered with their main job and in my view also compromised it. Presumably these attacks were a kind of
'opportunity knocks' moments, or was there possibly a pattern?

When you say regularly should that be interpreted as if these units in fact had a dual mission role from the outset? In my mind that would make their missions very complex and not very useful. To me, basically what you are saying is that Luftwaffe then considered their anti-shipping units to be inadequate and they had to ask recce units to step in and help out.

Sorry if I am straying from the main topic here but if these vessel victories were by an individual who obviously stayed within the reconnaissance field during his career we then seems to have that same man outshining his colleagues dedicated to the anti-shipping role.

Are more recce pilots known to have scored in such missions or was Orlowski a 'one man wonder'?

Cheers
Stig