Ghostbombers updates

[Rasmussen]

addition to 13 August 1940:
The belly landing of "1Z+EU" was indeed in Schwarza (near Rudolstadt) and not in Schwarzach (like guessed) and the a/c belonged to 10./KG z.b.V.1 (with the badge of the 3rd group near the middle engine). I have some pictures of that landing. The W.Nr. was 3101 (with my bad eyes).

Greetings
Rasmussen

[Nick Beale]

Today's updates to ghostbombers.com:

• Luftwaffe loss reports, May–December 1940: the fourth instalment, two pages covering September.
• KG 100, ULTRA and the Coventry Blitz: a new page about joint RAF/RN Operation MEDIUM, during which a German navigational beam station was destroyed.
• Geschwader Bongart: an addition about the attack on St. Donat-sur-l'Herbasse on 15 June 1944.

[Nick Beale]

The last updates to ghostbombers.com for this year:

• Luftwaffe loss reports, May–December 1940: the fifth instalment, one page covering October.
• KG 100, ULTRA and the Coventry Blitz: a note about the special Whitley bombers assigned to the Wireless Intelligence Development Unit; and a substantial rewrite of the page about Operation MEDIUM, identifying a possible cause for the destruction of German navigational beam station "SPREE."

[Nick Beale]

My first new material for 2016 has been uploaded today to http://www.ghostbombers.com/updates/updates.html:

• Luftwaffe loss reports, May–December 1940: the sixth instalment, two pages covering November and December.
• Jagdgruppe 200: a map showing bases and combats.and an eyewitness account of the unit's action on 12 July 1944.
• Geschwader Bongart: information about two He 177 operations flown by Westa 2.
• Operation Dragoon: cancellation of an operation against Allied ships off Corsica on 13 August 1944.
• Kommando Olga: more information about 6.(F)/123 in the summer of 1944, including a Ju 188 operation from Saint-Martin-de-Crau.

This takes the site total to 541 pages.

[edNorth]

Originally Posted by Nick Beale

My first new material for 2016 has been uploaded today to http://www.ghostbombers.com/updates/updates.html:

• Luftwaffe loss reports, May–December 1940: the sixth instalment, two pages covering November and December.
• Jagdgruppe 200: a map showing bases and combats.and an eyewitness account of the unit's action on 12 July 1944.
• Geschwader Bongart: information about two He 177 operations flown by Westa 2.
• Operation Dragoon: cancellation of an operation against Allied ships off Corsica on 13 August 1944.
• Kommando Olga: more information about 6.(F)/123 in the summer of 1944, including a Ju 188 operation from Saint-Martin-de-Crau.

This takes the site total to 541 pages.

FYI, Ju 188 140700 is found in TNA HW 5/515 CX/MSS/R.229 /C/12.
(date 26.06.44)

-Eggert

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by edNorth

FYI, Ju 188 140700 is found in TNA HW 5/515 CX/MSS/R.229 /C/12.
(date 26.06.44)

-Eggert

Thanks. I had found that one but I was somewhat sceptical of it being a Ju 188 since 140604 and 140607 were Ju 88 S-1. Were there Ju 188s in the 140 000 series?

The Ju 188 series I normally encounter in the areas that interest me most are 180 000 (Ju 188 A), 260 000 (Ju 188 E) and 280 000 (Ju 188 F).

[edNorth]

Originally Posted by Nick Beale

The Ju 188 series I normally encounter in the areas that interest me most are 180 000 (Ju 188 A), 260 000 (Ju 188 E) and 280 000 (Ju 188 F).

Also valid are Ju 188 in 10xxx, 188/150xxx, 160xxx, 170xxx, 230xxx, 290xxx series. But them in 088/0140xxx and 0430xxx were prototypes and in "other system", but the latter ones were used in Ju 88 H series (Recce) conversions. None C-6 in 0880360xxx or 188/720xxx or 750xxx series are yet found as conversions to Ju 188, but one Ju 88 H (Zerstörer).

[Nick Beale]

The latest set of updates to my website includes:

• A page listing some aircraft of I./JG 4 reported lost or damaged in the course of the unit's deployment to and departure from the France and Belgium in the late summer of 1944.
• Jagdgeschwader recognition bands: a signal of 25 October 1944 from Ob. West about an impending major operation.
• He 111 torpedo operations: an early British identification of KGr. 126.
• Kommando Olga: expanded information on 6.(F)/123.
• Sonderstaffel Kaatsch: more information on Bf 109 G-6, W.Nr. 781210.
• Geschwader Bongart: quote from a member of 2./ZG 1 about the unit's first knowledge of the Normandy invasion.
• SG 4 in Normandy: a prisoner's description of radar station »Distelfink« and the dispatch of one of the unit's Fw 190s for repair at Cravant-Bazarnes.
• Raid damage: the fate of Fw 190 G-3, W.Nr. 160462 of 1./SKG 10.
• Kampfflieger 4: an Abwehr assessment of damage inflicted in three Steinbock raids on London.
• I./JG 2 in Italy: a report of damage caused by the USAAF raids on Rome on 3 March 1944; a map of the Gruppe's bases and combats; a breakdown of pilots' victory claims.

[edNorth]

6.(F)123 Ju 88 S-1 140700 was not S-1 really, it was Ju 188 V61 (Prototype Ju 88 E-2) converted in mid 1942. Possibly the DF+EV but may have had other code.

[Martin388]

It can be assumed that He 177 A-3C refers to Rüstzustand C, with long range equipment.