Mosquito Raid Night March 30/31 1945

[Michal]

Hi Mark:

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Regards

Michal

[Kutscha]

Originally Posted by mhuxt

Hi Michal:

Were those 323s the glider variant, or the powered version?

Cheers,

Mark

Was not the Me321 the glider version of the powered Me323?

[mhuxt]

Ah, thanks.

Cheers,

Mark

[mhuxt]

Michal:


PM sent in reply.

Cheers,

Mark

[Stig Jarlevik]

Hi Guys

Mark: Can you verify the claim by S/L Freeman for TWO Me 323? Reason I ask is that the book Fighter Command War Diaries Part 5 says THREE Me 323 were claimed as damaged. The main problem with Foreman in his Fighter Command books is his "bad counting". There are numerous places where numbers just don't add up.

Kutscha: No, the Me 323 developed from the Me 321 and vice versa.

Cheers
Stig Jarlevik

[mhuxt]

Hi Stig:

Yes, the initial reference I had for the claim was the report on microfilm in the P.R.O., not the Fighter Command War Diaries Book. Freeman claimed three total damaged on the ground - two Me 323s at Chrudim and one Fw 190 at Pardubice.

Sorry to hear that volume 5 also has some issues - a terrible shame really since a thorough proofreader, with a little background, could have caught most of the issues which I've come across in Volume 4.

Still, I'm planning to get Volume 5 sometime soon, even if only as a cross-reference and for the narrative sections.

Cheers,

Mark

[Stig Jarlevik]

Sorry to hear that volume 5 also has some issues - a terrible shame really since a thorough proofreader, with a little background, could have caught most of the issues which I've come across in Volume 4.
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Thanks Mark
You put my feelings in writing. I thought at one time I was blind and lost my own abillity to count. Indeed ALL the volumes has many, many places where an interested proofreader immediately would have spotted all these anomalies.

Thanks for your update!!
Cheers
Stig

[David Pausey]

Hi

30/31-3-45 S/L D.B.Freeman, F/L J.J.Greene in NT453. Up 21:15. Down 04:05. Ranger to Prague area from St. Dizier. Pilzen, Ruzyne, Krelupy, Pardubice not lit but at the latter a Fw190 was seen and damaged on the ground and two Me323's were badly damaged at Chrudim(not lit). Locomotive exploded at 02:15 at Nymburk. Three good attacks on another train at Herrnbergtheim at 02:40. Landed at Toul-Ochey. Slight

[David Pausey]

Originally Posted by Michal

Dear Mark,

thank you very much once again. I will try to find something more about this day. Do you know who were crew and S/N or Code of aircraft?

If it help you it was cargo train No. 8982 with locomotive No. 354.762. Locomotive was damaged but "possible repairerable". Railwayman Josef Zlata was wounded on neck and left arm. A roof of one house was damaged.

Best

Michal

Hi Michal

Just found this post and thought you would be interested in what the 406 Sqn ORB has to say:-

30/31-3-45 S/L D.B.Freeman, F/L J.J.Greene in NT453.
Up 21:15. Down 04:05.
Ranger to Prague area from St. Dizier. Pilzen, Ruzyne, Krelupy, Pardubice not lit but at the latter a Fw190 was seen and damaged on the ground and two Me323's were badly damaged at Chrudim(not lit). Locomotive exploded at 02:15 at Nymburk. Three good attacks on another train at Herrnbergtheim at 02:40. Landed at Toul-Ochey. Slight cloud and haze, moonlight.

Did you find any more info ?

Regards

David

[David Pausey]

Hi Mark

Any chance of a copy of the 406 Sqn combat report ?

Regards

David