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Tony Wood's Luftwaffe Eastern front list oddities
While going through Tony Wood's Eastern front LW victory claims, I came accross some strange claims. I'd like to post them for comments.
May 31,1944 2/(F)100 Obfhr. Rumpf Thunderbolt 30km S. Polomoye 8300m July15,1944 2./NAGr 2 Ltn Brutt Mustang 50 82 @ 3600m Juky 15,1944 2/NAGr 2 Ltn Kruse P-2 (Pe-2?) 50 82 @ 3000m July 15,1944 2/NAGr 2 Fw. Strobach P-51 Mustang 50 17 @ 3000m July 15,1944 2/NAGr 2 Uffz Eisenhardt P-51 Mustang 50 61 @ 4000m Sept. 25,1944 3./SG 121(?) Gefr. Naumann Bf-109 38 846 @3500m Nov 7,1944 1./NAGr 12 (Eins) Lt Haus & Uffz Voss Wellington NW Butnir 2000M (WSW Sarajevo) Hopefully someone will know more about these victory claims. |
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Re: Tony Wood's Luftwaffe Eastern front list oddities
July 15 sounds like Ploesti, September 25 sounds like a Bulgarian 109, Wellington might be 205 Group, seems a bit late for Wellingtons though, maybe an SOE craft, or something from the Balkan Air Force, 37 Squadron perhaps.
Have a look here: http://natureonline.com/37/42-op31.html Wellingtons of 37 Squadron went to Sarajevo on 7 November 1944, (along with 77 other aircraft) losing 1 in Wellington action and another on return. Last edited by mhuxt; 3rd April 2011 at 01:08. |
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Re: Tony Wood's Luftwaffe Eastern front list oddities
I don't think the July 15th claims are from Ploesti. I do appreciate the information on the 37sq Wellington.
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Re: Tony Wood's Luftwaffe Eastern front list oddities
"SG 121" could be SG 151, which had various elements in the Balkans in 1944. Some of them had Fw 190 F-models, so they had air-to-air potential.
NAG 12 had a whole variety of Bf 109 G sub-types, so again they could fight if required. |
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Re: Tony Wood's Luftwaffe Eastern front list oddities
As I recall Tony said a lot of these claims were transcribed from handwritten documents, likely leading to some error in trying to interpret these things.
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Re: Tony Wood's Luftwaffe Eastern front list oddities
NAGr. 2 and NAGr. 12 had a number of claims, since they flew Gustavs, as Nick pointed out. I have a number of Nahaufklärung claims in details from Freiburg (including Ltn. Brütt's, which was not in the Ploiesti area, of course, since they stationed far from it).
Need to check the PlQ but 25 Sept sounds rather a Rumanian Messerschmitt (over Transylvania). |
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Re: Tony Wood's Luftwaffe Eastern front list oddities
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By the way, can anyone confirm the loss of this Luftwaffe long-range recce aircraft?
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Re: Tony Wood's Luftwaffe Eastern front list oddities
25 Sept. 1944 :
Some Hs 129 tasked to dive-bomb the village of Tureni 8 km from Turda and their escort of three romanian fighters were intercepted by four german Bf 109, a romanian aircraft (type not specified) was holed, it exploded after the pilot has landed and vacated it. from the french AIRMAG N°01 : LES BF-109 ROUMAINS - Page 61 |
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Incidentally I just pointed out, that it was a claim rather against a Rumanian, than a Bulgarian aircraft. (and of course it is just a claim, which not always match with a real loss in the other side - need to check the remained sources from both sides carefully). Kolozsvár and Szamosfalva areas are in PlQ. 37... grids but since it was a dogfight in quite high altitude, maybe the claim was not exactly in the same area, where the aircraft of Toma actually crashed. |
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