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“The enterprise was given the codename ‘Capricorn.’” should have read “The enterprise was given the codename Steinbock (Capricorn).”
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The ‘Little Blitz’ didn’t stop London’s criminals from going about their business. For example, the air raid of 21/22 February was followed by a smash and grab raid on a jeweller’s shop in Houndsditch next morning.
For lots more about this less discussed aspect of the war, see An Underworld at War by Donald Thomas (John Murray, London, 2004) ISBN 0-7195-6340 2.
Intercepted signals about the allocation of He 177s to I./KG 40 in late March 1944.
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Report on an intruder operation by II./KG 51 over Eastern England on the night of 11/12 May 1944.
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A page on first operations against the Anzio-Nettuno beach head.
Follow the links below for my translations of extracts from the War Diary of Villafranca di Verona aerodrome, describing bomber operations from there in the periods:
24 January–28 April 1944
3 May–11 June 1944
A report on a mining operation by KG 76 off Anzio on the night of 26/27 March 1944.
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Carsten Petersen says that the aircraft at centre right was photographed at Aalborg-West and belonged to KG 100. Jörn Junker concurs.
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Almost 700 words of the manuscript that were omitted from the book as published. They cover the period 24 February to 29 April 1944 in Italy and should have followed right after the order of battle table on this page.
The aircraft in the photograph has the mountings for FuG 200 but the antennae themselves are not yet installed.
Click on the link for the results of German pre-strike reconnissance of Corsican airfields; on the next for Allied and German reports of the air raids on Corsican airfields; and on these to see how it affected the RAF's 251 Wing and 322 Wing.
My thanks to Yves Marino for drawing my attention to an essay on author Joseph Heller's combat experiences with the 340th BG, which included the German attack on the Corsican airfields.
The following day, Allied aircraft struck back at German bomber bases in Northern Italy, destroying (for example) six Ju 88s and a Savoia at Villaorba, while losing a P-38.
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A heading and an entire paragraph have been omitted after the words “quartered on the flight line”, as follows:
KG Happy
On 15 May, LG 1 and KG 76 were ordered to take off at 22.00 hours. Flying via Ravenna, Rieti and Avezzano, they were to cross the front at midnight and attack three towns between Cassino and the coast. As far as possible, ground troops were to mark the front line by firing white Verey lights. The return flight would head over the sea, crossing the coast between Cape Linaro and Orbetelllo at 00.52 and returning to base just after 02.00 hrs. Seventeen aircraft of II./LG 1 flew the operation without loss. An attack in the same area was ordered for the following night but then cancelled. The raid took place instead on the 17th and a 5./KG 76 illuminator was brought down by AA fire. Perhaps it was the observer’s ‘complete lack of interest in his duties’ that gave his interrogators such a negative picture of what he bitterly called ‘KG Lustig’ (KG Happy).
It is this observer’s words which make up the second quotation on the page.
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The caption to the profile is incorrect. In fact it depicts the aircraft whose photograph appears in Kampfflieger Volume 2, page 154.
That photo also shows a unit emblem below the cockpit on the port side which is not visible in the profile.
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