Published sources
Gebhardt Aders, History of the German Night Fighter Force 1917-1945 (Janes, London, 1979) ISBN 0354012479
Aders suggests that II./NJG 6 claimed six victories in Italy but this cannot be supported from the primary sources now available. He does not mention that there were two deployments, with a break in between, nor that the whole Gruppe was not involved. Aders also lists Helmut Bunje as killed in action in August 1944 when in fact he survived the war (an error I repeated in Air War Italy 1944-45)
Jim Bailey, The Sky Suspended, A Fighter Pilot's Story, (Images Publishing, Malvern, 1995) ISBN 1 897817 42 8
This autobiography adds one or two descriptive touches to what is recorded in Bailey and Wint's sortie report for the night of 2/3 June 1944.
Theo Boiten, Nachtjagd: the Night Fighters versus Bomber War over the Third Reich, 1939-45 (The Crowood Press, Marlborough, 1997) ISBN 1 86126 086 5
Helmut Bunje was very much alive when interviewed by Boiten. He contributed his memories of shooting down a Lancaster in February 1945 and one of his paintings adorns the book's dust jacket.
Theo Boiten, Night Airwar: Personal recollections of the conflict over Europe, 1939-45 (The Crowood Press, Marlborough, 1999) ISBN 1 86126 298 1
For this volume Bunje offered his impressions of the relative merits of the Bf 110 G-4 and the Ju 88 G-1/G-6 and recounted the mission that brought his fifth victory, on 4/5 December 1944.
Karl Ries, Deutsche Luftwaffe über der Schweiz 1939-45 (Verlag Dieter Hoffmann, Mainz, 1978) ISBN3-87341-02202
Ries gives an account of Helmut Treynogga's landing in Switzerland in March 1944.
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