Ghostbombers updates

[Nick Beale]

Today's updates to Ghost Bombers are as follows:

• Kommando Götz: more about operations on 11 February 1945.
• I./JG 2 in Italy: discovery of a wreck from the 454th BG's combat on 3 March 1944.
• SG 4 in Italy: the fate of a 324th FG pilot in the combat of 13 May 1944.
• Kommando Olga: identification of 6.(F)/123's Z6+DL as a Ju 188, and the aircraft's fate.
• Operation Dragoon: more about converting II./KG 26's aircraft for bombing; more about Seenotstaffel 3 and its aircraft; more about events on 13 and 14 August 1944; the loss of a Do 24 SE of Dijon; the evacuation of aircraft on 19 August and 20 August; orders for reconnaissance on 22 August; Seenotkdo. Berre's transfer orders; correction to Appendix 2; and a note added to Appendix 3: Orders of Battle.
• Geschwader Bongart: a note about operations on 5 August 1944; details of another He 46 of the III. Gruppe; a contact between Oberst von dem Bongart and NJ Staffel Norwegen.
• Many corrections to layouts and typos.

[G.R.Morrison]

For your ongoing efforts, this member of an admiring public thanks you.

GRM

[Nick Beale]

Today's updates to Ghost Bombers are:

• A new (short) article on the last days of 3./NAG 13.
• 3./NAG 13 in May 1944: something about the circumstances of the loss of Bf 109 G-8 W.Nr. 710124.
• Operation Dragoon: a note about an Fw 190 of 2./NAG 13 (thanks to Peter van Gogh); more about the loss of a Do 24 to a Mosquito intruder on 15 August 1944.
• Geschwader Bongart: more about 2./FAG 5's operation on 4 July 1944.
• Using ULTRA: more about online access to the DEFE3 series files.
• 1.(F)/100: information on a further mission on 22 April 1945.

[Steve Coates]

Nick - Thanks for the DEFE3 update. You've repeated a paragraph on Page One.

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Steve Coates

You've repeated a paragraph on Page One.

Thanks, a Rapid Response Team will be dispatched.

[FalkeEins]

where's the 'like' button!

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by FalkeEins

where's the 'like' button!

Here's the design, now all I need is the html code to link it directly to my ego.

[Nick Beale]

Today's updates to Ghost Bombers are:

• 10./ZG 1: a new page about Teilkommando 5./196 (J) Brest-Süd.
• The last days of 3./NAG 13: timeline of the American advance into Bavaria added.
• Staffel Kaatsch: a map of operations and a revised page layout.
• Kommando Götz: small additions regarding operations on 4 January and 21 March 1945.
• Operation Dragoon: a little more about Seenotstaffel 3 and its plans to withdraw from France.
• ULTRA and the Coventry Blitz: information added about ULTRA's revelation of Knickebein and German plans to bomb British cross-channel guns.
• Geschwader Bongart: a note about a German propaganda attempt to link the Haute Savoie Maquis with a serial killer in Paris; a small revision regarding damaged Re. 2002s at Lyon-Bron.
• SG 4: Last Battles in Italy: correction of the name of Uffz. Günter Panknin (as per German war graves records).

… and no end of layout corrections.

[Steve Coates]

Nick - Thanks for the piece on 3./NAG 13. The Fi 156 you mention Frank Stout as having shot down was almost certainly piloted by Heinz Lex of Transportstaffel 40.

[Nick Beale]

I've posted all kinds of updates to the site this morning:

• Luftwaffe loss reports, May–October 1940: the first part of a new article on Ultra reports mentioning lost, missing and damaged aircraft during the Battle of France and Battle of Britain.
• Geschwader Bongart: a mission by IV./KG 100 on 19 June 1944 (thanks to information in a new book by Jean-Louis Roba).
• Green's last kill: changes to the conclusions, based on new information about salvaged aircraft at Bonn-Hangelar; a new page about Ofw. Jürgen Campsen of NSG 1 (thanks to Dr. Steffen Daehn).
• Markings and camouflage: new page added with several items from 1940.
• ULTRA and the Battle of Britain: some changes to the introduction.
• Adlertag: additions about a proposal to bomb the RAF's home airfields during the Battle of France and German units ordering self-destruct charges for their aircraft.
• KGr. 100, first weeks in France: various minor amendments and corrections.
• KGr. 100, Ultra and the Coventry Blitz: more about the 2./KG 1 Heinkel that crashed on Johnson Road, Bromley in November 1940; various minor corrections.
• He 111 Torpedo Operations: a small addition about KGr. 126 aircraft at Marx.