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Old 24th November 2018, 23:37
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Sicilian Night Fighter zone ‘CASTOR’

Post #183 in 'Using ULTRA to research the Luftwaffe' contains a reference I found to this NF zone: does anyone know anything about it? Dates etc?

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Re: Sicilian Night Fighter zone ‘CASTOR’

It,s Kastor. Map from summer 1943.
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Re: Sicilian Night Fighter zone ‘CASTOR’

Thanks, Junker. Having the correct name is always a good start.
Any idea when Kastor (and the others?) became operational?


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Re: Sicilian Night Fighter zone ‘CASTOR’

This might help a little. 9. Kp. came under:
II./Ln.-Rgt. 200
Formed spring 1943 in Italy as a radar (Flugmeldemess) Abteilung by renaming Stab I./Ln.-Rgt. 222 in Denmark. (Tessin; Kannapin)
20 Apr 43: Stab II at Comiso/Sicily. (NARA WashDC - T-321, T-405 and T-971 documents)

FpN: L 54480
(12.3.1943-7.9.1943) 9. Kompanie Luftnachrichten-Regiment 200.
Aug 43: Kp. was operating a Freya radar site at Capo Spartivento on the toe of the Italian peninsula. (Karl-Otto Hoffmann)

So it appears that these sites on Sicily were just being set up in April and May 1943.


Note: Karl-Otto Hoffmann places Kastor much farther north on the east coast of Sicily, according to his map reproduced on SES's website:

http://www.gyges.dk/Flum%20Med%209.pdf

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Hoffmann's book do contain a few errors.
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Re: Sicilian Night Fighter zone ‘CASTOR’

Thanks Larry, Junker, that helps.

I went back to the source of my post #183 in 'Using Ultra ...' and I am confident the Freya in question was at POZZALO on this date. I don't know enough about NJ zones to know if perhaps they moved as needed.


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Re: Sicilian Night Fighter zone ‘CASTOR’

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This might help a little. 9. Kp. came under:
II./Ln.-Rgt. 200
Formed spring 1943 in Italy as a radar (Flugmeldemess) Abteilung by renaming Stab I./Ln.-Rgt. 222 in Denmark. (Tessin; Kannapin)
20 Apr 43: Stab II at Comiso/Sicily. (NARA WashDC - T-321, T-405 and T-971 documents) .....
…… So it appears that these sites on Sicily were just being set up in April and May 1943.
Update: I have just found in CX/MSS/2466/T14 (23 April 1943) that Ln. Rgt 200 "... runs night fighter control in Tunisia, Sicily and Sardinia."
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