Ghostbombers updates

[Nick Beale]

I've just posted the last updates to the site for this year:

• More about JG 27 and II./JG 53 at Angers in June 1944 (with thanks to Pierre Babin for contributions from his own researches).
• More about US Navy pilots' claims over France on 19 and 21 August 1944 (with thanks to Ronnie Olsthoom).
• Additions to the Geschwader Bongart article about events on 21 and 24 July 1944 and about II./KG 26 operations against the Resistance.
• An addition to my "compete works" page.

[ouidjat]

Originally Posted by Nick Beale

I've just posted the last updates to the site for this year:

• More about JG 27 and II./JG 53 at Angers in June 1944 (with thanks to Pierre Babin for contributions from his own researches).
• More about US Navy pilots' claims over France on 19 and 21 August 1944 (with thanks to Ronnie Olsthoom).
• Additions to the Geschwader Bongart article about events on 21 and 24 July 1944 and about II./KG 26 operations against the Resistance.
• An addition to my "compete works" page.

Thanks for the updates Nick,

And thanks to Pierre too!!! This fellow start to be crazy when you're talking about LW losses in his area ...
Nice Guy.

Regards, Franck.

[mpierrela]

This link is broken


http://www.ghostbombers.com/updates.html

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by mpierrela

This link is broken

http://www.ghostbombers.com/updates.html

That isn't the full link (and it hasn't been since 2011). What you need is:

http://www.ghostbombers.com/updates/updates.html

This is the link given in all my recent posts on this thread (I hope).

[Nick Beale]

I've posted 2014's first updates this evening:

• The first instalment of an article about Kommandos Götz, Sperling and Hecht, and
• 1.(F)/123.
  
• Additions to the Using Ultra pages about:
  — The HW 11 file series which contains several volumes of Air and Military Official Histories written by the Government Code & Cipher School; and
  — The code groups introduced into German signals late in the war to denote numbers, dates and times.
  
• A little more about I./LLG 1's withdrawal after the Vercors operation.
  
• Kampfflieger Vol. 4: impressions of the December 1943 raid on Bari from a German prisoner of war.
  
• A mission assigned to Kdo. Braunegg on 1 December 1944 and a comment on code letters assigned to their aircraft.
  
• Additional activity by 1.(F)/100 in April 1945.

[Marc-André Haldimann]

Thanks for your continuously expanded collection of original documents, Nick; it is highly appreciated...

Would it be an idea to look after the CEAR reports and have them on your site? That would be a real gem for pinning down dozens of wrecks seen on pics... well hopefully ;-)

Thanks again
Marc

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Marc-André Haldimann

Would it be an idea to look after the CEAR reports and have them on your site? That would be a real gem for pinning down dozens of wrecks seen on pics... well hopefully ;-)

Thanks again
Marc

(A) I don't actually have that many of these reports, and even if I did ...

(B) re-typing endless lists is not my idea of fun!

[ouidjat]

Hello Nick,

Following the Nancy raid, I'm on Angers/Soucelles chapter.
Hum ...
What happened to 163148/Red 10 flown by Fadschild and to 163148/Yellow 2 flown by Sixl??? Clerk error?

At least we are sure they aren't Bf110 and/or Ju 88!

Regards, Franck.

[ouidjat]

...
And WNr.15864/Red 3 crashed with 35% Damage.
Already crashed on 06-Mar-1944, Yellow for while in 9./JG 54, Uffz. Erwin Müller being the pilot (a Bf 109 G-5?) just damaged I have no %.

Sent to JG 27? really?..

BR, Franck.

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by ouidjat

163148/Yellow 2 flown by Sixl??? Clerk error?

Regards, Franck.

My error, Sixl's aircraft was W.Nr. 412509. Now corrected.

As for 15864, I think it's quite possible that a repaired aircraft could be allocated to a new unit. Thanks for the information on its previous history.