Ghostbombers updates

[Nick Beale]

Just uploaded (a week ahead of the site's 14th anniversary):

• Ghost Bombers … NSG 9: OB SW's communiqué the morning after NSG 9's first operations over the Anzio beach head.
• Kampfflieger Vol. 4: orders of 30 August 1943 for a reprisal raid on Oxford; a situation report on the raids on Corsica on 12/3 May 1944; and two Fw 190 G-3 of III./KG 51 which crashed on 11 October 1944.
• Kittyhawk vs. Fw 190: A prisoner of war's assessment of the damage inflicted by Kittyhawks on SG 4's base at Rieti during April 1944.
• Markings and camouflage: a rebuke of September 1942 over non-regulation markings on ambulance aircraft.
• Kommando Koch: more about WIM-Bodenstellen; film stills showing a COL radar on Malta and an RAF attack on an Axis convoy; addition of Werk Nummern for three Ju 52; a personal account of service with the Führungskette X. Fliegerkorps; two new quotes from a pilot of 6./KG 100; a warning to No. 201 Group about the possibility of jamming; and two planned Western Mediterranean search radar sorties in November 1942.
• Kommando Kunkel: strength figures for 3 December 1944.
• Geschwader Bongart: the 79th Fighter Group's impressions of its attack on Valence; additional illustrations of wrecked Re. 2002 aircraft at Valence and revisions to the captions.
• Sonderstaffel Kaatsch: correction of a pilot's name (thanks to Xerumbe).
• I./JG 4 returns home: addition of victories claimed on 12, 28 and 29 September 1944, and two losses on the 28th.
• Nachtjagdstaffel Norwegen: correction to Kurt Keilig's last victory (thanks to Rod McKenzie).
• Kommando Olga: a Dutch court's verdict on the captured agent, Willem Copier (thanks to René Voulon).
• Heinz Hauck and 6.(F)/123: more about the unit's predecessor, 3./KG 66 (thanks to a lead from Bruce Dennis); a proposed 6.(F)/123 operation in July 1944; and something more about where that Staffel ended up.
• The Ar 234 in Norway and Denmark: an additional sortie flown on 4 April 1945.
• Invasion Watch: addition of a reconnaissance of Chatham on 15 February 1944.
• Numerous corrections throughout.

No promises about what comes next (or when) but I am working, amongst other things, on incorporating some additional missions by Sonderstaffel Kaatsch and adding some ground war context for the sorties they flew.

[Nick Beale]

Newly uploaded, taking the site to 656 pages:

• Kampfflieger Vol. 4: three new pages about the raid on Paris on 26/27 August 1944; additions about the abortive attack on Bristol on 14/15 May 1944; more about the Kettenhund jamming transmitter.
• Kommando Koch: extensive new material on the unit's operations; more about the loss of an He 111 of Führungskette Fl.Kps. X; anti-jamming operations by the RAF's Nos. 49 and 86 Squadrons; a new page on British development from 1941 of systems to home on jamming aircraft; characteristics of the German Kobold jamming set.
• Kommando Rastedter: a year-end assessment for 1943; more about development of the Roderich jammer and various smaller additions; a new page about radar-monitoring operations over the North Sea in Summer 1944.
• Heinz Hauck and 6.(F)/123: an additional paragraph about suspected radars on Mediterranean fishing boats.
• Sonderstaffel Kaatsch: numerous additions concerning the unit's operations during September 1944.
• Geschwader Bongart: some information about the French Resistance's own airpower; an Re. 2002 abandoned at Reims.
• II./SG 10 in Yugoslavia: an addition about Ogefr. Franz Antes.