Ghostbombers updates

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by SES

Hi Nick,
I have a specific question to the Nachtjagdstaffel Norwegen article, do you have the German expression for this:
Kristiansand-South (also the location of a “fighter area battle HQ”) ?
kind regards
SES

I'm sorry but I don't. That is a problem with British intelligence material, you often have to try and guess what the original German words were.

[SES]

Hi Nick,
Understand what you mean. There is an excellent British post war intel report on the Luftwaffe Funkaufklärings Dienst. It took ages to read it, as I had to try and figure out what each operational, technical and unit term would be in German.
Well the background for my question was, that I am on the hunt for an Abschnitt Flugmelde Zentrale in the Kristiansand area, which had scramble authority and intercept control facilities, but even with tremendous help from Norwegian colleges it remains un-located.
For an in depth explanation please see:
http://www.gyges.dk/luftwaffe_ln%20norway.htm
bregds
SES

[ju55dk]

This probably goes all the way back to april 1940. In order not to mix up Kristiansund and Kristiansand, in Ultra, the first one was called -North and the other -South. So Kristiansand-south is just Kristiansand.

Junker

Originally Posted by SES

Hi Nick,
I always enjoy your up-dates and the valuable work you do on the less well covered facets and areas of operations of the Luftwaffe. I have a specific question to the Nachtjagdstaffel Norwegen article, do you have the German expression for this:
Kristiansand-South (also the location of a “fighter area battle HQ”) ?
kind regards
SES

[SES]

Hi Jørn,
I'm on the hunt for AFMZ Kristiansand, and Nicks latest up-date seems to confirm my suspission of it's function as a "mini-Jafü".
And BTW it would aslo be nice to be able to locate the Gef.Std.
bregds
SES

[Nick Beale]

Today's updates are:

• Several additions to the Markings and Camouflage pages including Jagdgeschwader recognition markings, Mediterranean theatre markings and miscellaneous markings (e.g. captured aircraft).
  
• Information on the later service of Uffz. Kuhlmann of Staffel Kaatsch and a little more about the Staffel's Bf 109 G-6 W.Nr. 412169.
  
• Added information on operations by Jagdgruppe 200 on 1 July 1944 and about belated measures to formalise the unit's establishment. Also a link to a photograph of wreckage from a 3./JGr. 200 aircraft lost on 12 August 1944.
  
• More on 1.(F)/100's tasks for 7 April 1945.
  
• A note on Ultra Air Digests.

[Steve Coates]

Nick - I found the note on the Ultra Air Digests very interesting. What a shame these aren't amongst the freely downloadable DEFE3 material.

Whilst posting, I should just also say a word of thanks for everything you've posted up on your site over the years on the Ultra topic.

[Nick Beale]

I've just posted the following additions and updates to my website:

• A new article on trial He 111 torpedo operations in the summer of 1940.
• More about Hptm. Georg Seckel of Jagdgruppe 200 and a listing of seven more Bf 109s belonging to the Gruppe.
• New information about Bf 109 G-6 W.Nr. 15862 of Staffel Kaatsch and 5.(F)/123; more about the later careers of some of the Staffel's pilots; more about the service careers of Bf 109 W.Nr. 15862 and 412169.
• Some small addtions to the article on NAG 6 and the Me 262. including the reason why W.Nr. 111570 crashed.
• More about Bf 109s W.Nr. 161369, 710023 and 710091 of 3./NAG 13.
• A little more about Obltn. Kopf of Kommando Braunegg.
• A couple of additional graphics on the Using Ultra pages.

[Dan O'Connell]

Great work as always Nick.

[Nick Beale]

I've just posted the following additions and updates to my website:

• The first instalment of an article about Geschwader Bongart and its war against the French Resistance, March–September 1944. (The plan is for the second part to cover July 1944; the third, August-September plus sources and appendix);
• II./NJG 6 in Italy: photograph of Fw. Bunje and his crew (thanks to Theo Boiten).
• A small addition to the Kampfflieger page on anti-guerilla operations in France.
• A small addition to the Staffel Kaatsch article about plans to return 2./NAG 13 to action and more about the death of Oblt. Theodor Spiess.
• A correction to a loss report on an Fw 190 A-6 of III./SG 4 and information about the machine's actual fate; also, a note about a Ju 52 which carried supplies for the Gruppe.
• Me 262 and NAG 6: a small addition re Obltn. Kopf's detachment from 5.(F)/123.
• A revision to the account of Jagdgruppe 200's action on 14 July and a small addition regarding the unit's bomb damage losses on 24 July 1944.

[John Beaman]

Great stuff Nick! THX!