Ghostbombers updates

[Nick Beale]

New material uploaded this morning to my site:

• Background and sources for my c. 25,000-word history Sonderstaffel Einhorn and III./KG 200: from Self-sacrifice to Surrender in Axis Wings Volume 1 (just published by Chandos Publications).
• The destruction of 14 Focke-Wulf Ta 152's at Cottbus-Neuhausen on 16 January 1945 plus a short piece about the Gefechtsverband Kommando der Erprobungsstellen.
• Geschwader Bongart: a detailed report of operations round Limoges on 16 June 1944 (with thanks to Georg Schlaug)
• Kommando Koch: specifications of the Karl I and II jamming transmitters.
• Listening and Jamming: specifications of the Kettenhund, Nervtöter and Starnberg jamming transmitters.
• 1.(F)100: some addtions about flights and movements in late April/early May 1945 and to the order of battle at Appendix 3.
• Nachtjagdstaffel Norwegen:figures for monthly allocations of night fighters.
• SG 4 in Italy: note about the fate of Horst Wegener of 7./JG 53.

[Nick Beale]

After a long gap, I've updated my site. It's now up to 820 pages in all:

• New article: Nachtschlachtgruppe 8 on the Oder Front, 1945.
• The Luftwaffe and St.-Exupéry: several additions including new evidence from the Bletchley Park Archive about German air activity on 31 July 1944 and a summary of Guy Julien's counter-arguments to my interpretation of the day's events.
• Markings and Camouflage: a report about Hakenkreuze being mistaken for white rings and a Göring order about an "imminent large-scale operation of the fighter arm" in November 1944.
• I./JG 2 in Italy: addtions regarding 10-day strength returns, loss and damage, events in the calendar of operations.
• Sonderstaffel Kaatsch: strength figures for 1, 10, 20 and 30 September and 10 October 1944.
• Kommando Kunkel: some new strength figures for February, March and April 1944.
• NSG 9: additional order of battle data for February–April 1944
• Geschwader Bongart: information about the Luftwaffe's stocks of the Re. 2002, a new entry for 4 June and a correction regarding operations on 30 and 31 July 1944.
• Jagdgruppe 200: small biographical addition about Ltn. Kurt Bell.
• Air Raid Damage: a note on the cover designation Airfield 1463 and more about Erprobungskommando 152's strength.
• Sonderstaffel Einhorn: additional sources.

[Marcel Hogenhuis]

Wow Nick,
What a nice update that is ! I read the ongoing research about Saint-Exupery and your amount of arguments against the 'German fighter claim' is very convincing to my opinion. Keep up the good work!


Best wishes, Marcel