Help needes 5./KG 40 Crash near Vesly/Lessay on 10th June 1944

[Nick Beale]

National Archives file HW 13/39

Report CX/MSS/OPD 1200
For 10th June 1944
Times MST [=GMT+2]
… Fliegerkorps X in conjunction with Fliegerdivision 2
… II./KG 40: 9 He 177 operated, 6 attacked, 1 broke off, 2 missing. Claims: 1 transport ship 3–10,000 tons and 1 passenger ship 20,000 tons sunk, 1 d/r [destroyer?] damaged, 1 cargo ship 10,000 tons damaged.

[added in pencil] Flk X 6 He 177, 3 Do 217 lost