Ghostbombers updates

[Nick Beale]

I've just posted some new material to my website:

http://www.ghostbombers.com/updates.html

A selection of messages about the transfer of IV./KG 27 to a new airfield; the shooting down a a Ju 188 from 11./KG 2; and a detailed strength return for IV./KG 1 showing a diverse collection of aircraft types.

An extensive addition to the NSG 9 pages about the arrival of Ju 87s with 6Q+N_ codes in February/March 1944.

An addition to the NSG 9 pages about the 1. Staffel's deployment to the battle front in March 1944.

[Nick Beale]

New things added to ghostbombers.com tonight (local time) include:

• An addition to the article on I./JG 2 in Italy describing No. 253's role in the 52nd FG's clash with I./JG 2 on 19 March 1944.
  
• a redesigned "complete works" page with several new illustrations.
  
• a redesigned home page (tested with Safari and Firefox but it probably won't work properly for IE5 users).
  
• correction of a circa 15-year-old error in the appendices to the Operation Dragoon article.

Two more additions are dealt with in other threads.

[Nick Beale]

New things added to ghostbombers.com tonight (local time) include:

• An update to The Luftwaffe and Saint-Exupéry article, incorporating research done in the last few weeks (see the thread on that topic).
• A small addition to the article on The Bf 109 H in service with 5.(F)/123 reflecting debate on TOCH about the type of engine it had.
• Fixed the navigation of Kommando Sommer: the road to Italy so that you can now get to the last page.

[Nick Beale]

I've just posted some new material to my website:

http://www.ghostbombers.com/updates.html

Aside from the Bf 109 H material (see separate thread) there are:

• NSG 9 (Chapter 7): information about the rescue of Fw. Karl Razinski from his crashed Ju 87 (complimenting the story already there of his pilot's escape from the wreckage).
• II./NJG 6 in Italy: a new report about a Bf 110 shot down on 2/3 June 1944, including its tactical code.
• Using Ultra: minor updates.

[John Beaman]

Superb work, Nick, as usual. Thanks for the hard work. those who have not worked with ULTRA or Intelligence files have no idea how tedious it is!

John

[Nick Beale]

I've just posted some new material to my website:

http://www.ghostbombers.com/updates.html

There are now several additions to the article on I./JG 2 in Italy. These include two "new" missions and a Bf 109 loss and are drawn from a 4. Staffel pilot's Flugbuch. This information is thanks to Erik Mombeek whose work on JG 2 is considerably more ambitious than mine.

[George Hopp]

Sorry Nick, but I don't see any changes that you have made to the engine carried by the 109H. As I mentioned in an earlier thread, the designation of the engine as a DB 605GS was a perfectly valid one.

[Nick Beale]

I've just posted the first updates to my site for a couple of months:

• A new article: II./SG 10 in Yugoslavia, November 1944

• A new graphic added to page 4 of the Using Ultra article

• Corrections to an appendix of The Stuka on the Scrapheap article

The II./SG 10 article relates to an earlier thread on TOCH by the way.

[RT]

About Steffen lost on 24.th febr., you posted it as he was Bf/bs but a steffen was quoted as missing on 1.nov.44 with same unit, returned later to his unit the same ??

Remi

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by RT

About Steffen lost on 24.th febr., you posted it as he was Bf/bs but a steffen was quoted as missing on 1.nov.44 with same unit, returned later to his unit the same ??

Remi

Your guess is as good as mine.

The Personalverlustmeldung that I used as a source for the article says that Oblt. Steffen was «Bordfu.» who failed to return from a mission to the Linnich area on 24.2.45 and that his fate was unknown. The Gen.Qu. 6. Abt. loss return for that date also says he is a «Bf.» and the he is missing.

What is your source for his being posted missing on 1 November 1944?