Ghostbombers updates

[Marc-André Haldimann]

Thanks Nick,

For your continued efforts and updates; they are highly appreciated.

Sincerely,
Marc

[Marc-André Haldimann]

Nick,

One small tidbit of an information: Fw 190 F-8/R1 E8+EH of 1./NSGr. 9 found by war's end at Vicenza and noted as such by Nr.1 F.I.U. (Party B) team 4 May 1945 without W.Nr. recorded is actually W.Nr. 584562, as ascertained by a close-up photo of its tail, posted over on LRG Forum here:
https://www.luftwaffe-research-group...2/#post-108059

Cheers
Marc

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Marc-André Haldimann

Nick,

One small tidbit of an information: Fw 190 F-8/R1 E8+EH of 1./NSGr. 9 found by war's end at Vicenza and noted as such by Nr.1 F.I.U. (Party B) team 4 May 1945 without W.Nr. recorded is actually W.Nr. 584562, as ascertained by a close-up photo of its tail, posted over on LRG Forum here:
https://www.luftwaffe-research-group...2/#post-108059

Cheers
Marc

Thanks, the mid-shot showing the "Scuola di Politaggio" hangar emerged a few years after the book came out and there are three more in Hideki Noro's "LO+ST" (2009), including that one of the tail. There's also one there of E8+MH.

[Nick Beale]

Added this morning:

• Geschwader Bongart: addtions to the sections on orirgins; March 1944; 8, 9,10, 12 and 20 June; 8, 18 and 26 July; 12, 13, 17 and 18 August; translated excerpts from a Wehrmacht handbook on anti-partisan warfare, covering the role of the Luftwaffe (quotations from this also added as monthly chapter headings); changes to pagination and navigation.
• LLG 1 and Kommando Schäfer: additions for July and September 1944.
• Jagdgruppe 200 in Provence: more about the unit's origins.
• Kommando Kunkel: additions to the sections on organisation, June and July 1944.
• Einsatzommando KG 51 in France: more about February, 22 July and 9 August 1944.
• SG 4 in Italy: addition to June 1944.
• SG 4 in Normandy: addition to 12 June 1944.
• Operation Dragoon: more about 2./SAGr. 128 on 20 August 1944; finally corrected the spelling of Biscarrosse, 27 years after starting on this project.

[Siko54]

Originally Posted by Nick Beale

Added this morning:

• Geschwader Bongart: addtions to the sections on orirgins; March 1944; 8, 9,10, 12 and 20 June; 8, 18 and 26 July; 12, 13, 17 and 18 August; translated excerpts from a Wehrmacht handbook on anti-partisan warfare, covering the role of the Luftwaffe (quotations from this also added as monthly chapter headings); changes to pagination and navigation.
• LLG 1 and Kommando Schäfer: additions for July and September 1944.
• Jagdgruppe 200 in Provence: more about the unit's origins.
• Kommando Kunkel: additions to the sections on organisation, June and July 1944.
• Einsatzommando KG 51 in France: more about February, 22 July and 9 August 1944.
• SG 4 in Italy: addition to June 1944.
• SG 4 in Normandy: addition to 12 June 1944.
• Operation Dragoon: more about 2./SAGr. 128 on 20 August 1944; finally corrected the spelling of Biscarrosse, 27 years after starting on this project.

Thanks Nick - always good to see more about Jagdgruppe 200

[Nick Beale]

Marking 18 years since the site went live, this morning I’ve posted these updates and additions to Ghost Bombers:

• Kampfflieger Vol. 4 (page 339): a ten-page/9,500-word article on Luftwaffe night bombing over Normandy in the period between the American Operation COBRA and the German Unternehmen Lüttich (27 July–8 August 1944).
• Kampfflieger Vol. 4: more about reconnaissance operations associated with the December 1943 raid on Bari.
• Ghost Bombers, the Moonlight War of NSG 9: additional details of operations in April 1945.
• Invasion watch: an extract from a medal citation referring to the sighting of the invasion fleet by Maj. Kurt Dahlmann of I./SKG 10.
• Stab JG 77 war diary: more about JG 77's operations with the Macchi C.205 in November and December 1943.
• Nachtjagdstaffel Norwegen: additional information on flights in April 1945, thanks to Jörn Junker and situation reports from by the Bundesarchiv.
• I./JG 2 in Italy: my translation of a contemporary magazine article about Siegfried Lemke's experiences on 19 March 1944.
• NAG 6 and the Me 262: additions about results on 2 February, an Fw 190 operation on 31 March and missions with the Fw 190 and Me 262 during April 1945.
• NAG 1 and the Me 262: additions about operations on 7 & 10 April 1945.
• 1940 losses: additions for late October.
• Schlachtflieger: details added to "The Stuka on the Scrapheap" about the evacuation of Bonn-Hangelar.
• Kommando Koch: added a deciphered signal of 26 October 1940 mentioning Hptm. Koch.

[ju55dk]

Addition to flights by 4/NJG 3. Flugansagen von FLUKO Aalborg.
23/4-45 2353 start Ju 88 B4+OA zum Alarm nach Flieder. 0043 landung.
23/4-45 2354 start Me 110 zum Alarm für Flieder. Landung 0138.

Jörn

[Russell]

Nick

Happy anniversary for your site, always interesting,

Regards

Russell

[Jan Bobek]

Amazing stuff, Nick
Thank you

[Nick Beale]

Added to my site this morning, taking it to 783 pages:

• Nachtjagdstaffel Norwegen: expanded account of operations flown in 1945.
• Kommando Koch: more about jamming during the Channel Dash and the situation on Malta in July 1942.
• Geschwader Bongart: a proposal to deploy KG 200's Kommando Schäfer against the allies in Normandy in June 1944.
• Kampfflieger Vol. 4: a brief extract from a postwar assessment of X. Fliegerkorps' use of guided weapons against bridges; German evaluations of the Kettenhund jammer; production figures for the Starnberg jammer and data on Düppel reflective strips; an assessment of LG 1's performance in January 1945.
• III./SG 4 in Normandy: another tribute to the defenders of radar station »Distelfink«.
• The Luftwaffe and Saint-Exupéry: expanded to take account of additional material from the Bundesarchiv; also an examination of the myth that reconnaissance pilot Robert Heichele shot the French author down.