Ghostbombers updates

[John Beaman]

Thanks for your continuing hard work, Nick. You are one of the few people who appreciate the importance of ULTRA sources in the history of WWII.

Frankly, no one should write a story about anything in the ETO, without sourcing ULTRA. You've done that!

[Nick Beale]

More material posted to Ghost Bombers today, as follows:

• Jagdgruppe 200: addition to 18 August 1944.
  
• Staffel Kaatsch: complete revision of the unit's formative days (18–25 August 1944) plus an expanded discussion of its aircraft inventory.
  
• Geschwader Bongart: extensive additions throughout the article about attacks on further locations (including Abondance, Thônes, Les Villards and Rieumes) by the unit itself and by II./KG 26 and III./KG 100; more about Westa 2's He 177s and more Bongart aircraft identified.

[Nick Beale]

I've just posted a series of updates to my web site, quite a lot of which seem to involve Bf 109s:

• A new article about aircraft lost in air raids: by III./JG 26 (Nancy, 25 May 1944); JG 27 (Angers/Soucelles, 26 June 1944); and E-Stelle Karlshagen (9 July 1944).
• Jagdgruppe 200: an addition to the events of 12 July 1944 and more about Bf 109 G-6 W.Nr. 163552.
• More about the Bf 109s of 3./NAG 13 (W.Nr. 710000 series) in Spring/Summer 1944.
• Staffel Kaatsch: more about the history of Bf 109 G-6 W.Nr. 163161.
• Geschwader Bongart: two "target flights" on 27 January 1944; a "new" Re. 2002 mission on 24 June; more about Ju 88 C-6 W.Nr. 750886 and 750952, He 111 W.Nr. 5113, Bf 109 G-5 W.Nr. 110395 and "Bf 109 G-12" WNr. 360930 (thanks to Ed North); an operation on 16 August (thanks to Philippe Cannone); another loss from 2./ZG 1 on 7 June 1944; more about III./KG 100's attack on the Forêt de Rieumes on 17 July; and a final(?) mention of the Geschwader on 15 December 1944.
• Minor corrections and editing.

[edNorth]

Nick,
I referred to Ju 88 C-6 360390 (not 360930), then Ju 88´s mentioned 06.07.1944 (8207, 2383 & 6216) certainly were Ju 88 A-5 versions, and known surviours and mentioned in other Ultra messages earlier (maintance related).
Also Ju 88 C-6 "750886" falls into blank block (blank nummerical range), and is therefore most likely corrupt (therefore “not known here.” is correct from Technical Officer 14/15.07.44) but may relate to 750686 (this number is close enough for simple typo error), but Ju 88 C-6 750952 seems valid number, known 28.06.1944 with I NJG 2 - i.e. Ju 88 C-6 4R+GH, known on unit strength (SN2, 25A, Schráge, Doedel M2, autopilot u/s, 16:00 hrs Chaeaudun) 28.06.44 (TNA HW5 CX/MSS/T.234/14)
Ju 88 C-6 705686 on 14/15.06.44 is corrupt (number did not exist), likely C-6 750686 meant.

Adding Ju 88 A-5 0880504 PB+GB 11./Gesch. Bongart for one shot down 28.06.44 [Salonen / NVM]

Finally, I have enjoyed reading the updates on this very obscure unit. Thanks! -ed

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by edNorth

Nick,
I referred to Ju 88 C-6 360390 (not 360930)

THanks Ed, I'll correct that.

[Nick Beale]

I've just posted the last updates to the site for this year:

• More about JG 27 and II./JG 53 at Angers in June 1944 (with thanks to Pierre Babin for contributions from his own researches).
• More about US Navy pilots' claims over France on 19 and 21 August 1944 (with thanks to Ronnie Olsthoom).
• Additions to the Geschwader Bongart article about events on 21 and 24 July 1944 and about II./KG 26 operations against the Resistance.
• An addition to my "compete works" page.

[mpierrela]

This link is broken


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

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by mpierrela

This link is broken

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

That isn't the full link (and it hasn't been since 2011). What you need is:

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

This is the link given in all my recent posts on this thread (I hope).

[ouidjat]

Originally Posted by Nick Beale

I've just posted the last updates to the site for this year:

• More about JG 27 and II./JG 53 at Angers in June 1944 (with thanks to Pierre Babin for contributions from his own researches).
• More about US Navy pilots' claims over France on 19 and 21 August 1944 (with thanks to Ronnie Olsthoom).
• Additions to the Geschwader Bongart article about events on 21 and 24 July 1944 and about II./KG 26 operations against the Resistance.
• An addition to my "compete works" page.

Thanks for the updates Nick,

And thanks to Pierre too!!! This fellow start to be crazy when you're talking about LW losses in his area ...
Nice Guy.

Regards, Franck.

[Nick Beale]

I've posted 2014's first updates this evening:

• The first instalment of an article about Kommandos Götz, Sperling and Hecht, and
• 1.(F)/123.
  
• Additions to the Using Ultra pages about:
  — The HW 11 file series which contains several volumes of Air and Military Official Histories written by the Government Code & Cipher School; and
  — The code groups introduced into German signals late in the war to denote numbers, dates and times.
  
• A little more about I./LLG 1's withdrawal after the Vercors operation.
  
• Kampfflieger Vol. 4: impressions of the December 1943 raid on Bari from a German prisoner of war.
  
• A mission assigned to Kdo. Braunegg on 1 December 1944 and a comment on code letters assigned to their aircraft.
  
• Additional activity by 1.(F)/100 in April 1945.