Oberleutnant Josef Kraft Claims in 1944

[Leo Etgen]

Hello

Oberleutnant Josef Kraft (56 victories, RK-EL) of 7./NJG 6 made a number of claims, some against the Allied resupply effort during the Warsaw Uprising, in August 1944 through October 1944. I have found information on the majority but online sources are sparse regarding the following. Is information about the crews and their fates of these machines known?

21 August 1944 - Wellington X (LN852) of 40 Sqn, RAF
22 August 1944 - Liberator VI (EW261) of 31 Sqn, SAAF
20 September 1944 - Wellington X (LN498) of 70 Sqn, RAF
13 October 1944 - Wellington X (MF469) of 40 Sqn, RAF

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Horrido!

Leo

[Chris Goss]

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=67278 ?

[Leo Etgen]

Hello Chris

Many thanks for the link announcing that new work which I freely admit I hadn't noticed before. I trust it'll be an excellent volume as can be expected by the team of Air War Publications and it'll be interesting to compare this work with the conclusions reached by Boiten in the Nachtjagd Combat Archive volume dedicated to the Eastern Front and Mediterranean from which the above identities of several bombers was drawn. I have to say that I noticed that it is considerably larger with 316 pages as compared to 144 pages for the previous book.

Horrido!

Leo