UPDATES This year's additions and corrections to the site are listed opposite, with the most recent at the top. I'm not working to any schedule: this isn't a job, I'm doing it for my own amusement. |
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Axis Wings articles, new material: Sonderstaffel Einhorn: an addition about I./SG 5 in August 1944 (page 126 of the article); a correction about 11./KG 200's target on 19 March 45 (page 128); correction regarding bridging operations on the Elbe (page 133). Panthers Taking Pictures: more about allocations of Me 262s to the reconnaissance role (page 68); Obltn. Braunegg's report on his unit's first six days of operations (page 70); extracts from a January 1945 newsletter for the reconnaissance arm (page 70). Kommando. Koch: more about the Moonshine jammer and the Northolt Defiant Flight. Kommando Rastedter: small correction to 29 November 1943. Invasion Watch, April–June 1944: a small amendment to the Postscript. JGr. 200: an Ob. West diary entry about air activity over Southern France on 25 June 1944. Heinz Hauck and 6.(F)/123: an additional detail about Ju 88 S-1, W.Nr. 140604. Cobra to Lüttich, July–August 1944: changes to the account of events on 2/3 August 1944. Kommando Schäfer: an addition about 18 September 1944. Staffel Kaatsch: credits awarded for Austers shot down on 28 and 29 September 1944. Cottbus/Neuhausen, 16 January 1945: allocation of a Ta 152 H-0 to III./JG 301. The Last Days of 3./NAG 13: a situation report on the American capture of Cham. The Dillingen Bridgehead, April 1945: another proposed »Wasserballon« operation. NSGr. 8 on the Oder Front: January–April 1945: additions about the unit's origins. Using ULTRA to research the Luftwaffe: additions to the introduction about early uses of individual decrypts by historians.
New article: The Dillingen bridge and »Wasserballon«, April 1945.. Sonderstaffel Einhorn: information supplementing my two Axis Wings articles including: a proposed Bombentorpedo operation by I./SKG 10 in July 1944; a conference about using Schlachtflieger against ships on 9 July 1944; General Staff discussions in June 1944 about deploying 'self-sacrifice' pilots; 6th Airborne Division's account of a night attack by an Fw 190 on 20 April 1945; and more order of battle figures. Me 262 reconnaissance: information supplementing my Axis Wings article 'Panthers Taking Pictures'. NSGr. 8: some additions about the unit's early days, including congratulations on its 1,000th night sortie. He 111 torpedo operations, July–August 1940: information about the first conversions of He 111s to carry torpedoes. Kommando Rastedter: added a radar reconnaissance flight on 30 July 1944. Geschwader Bongart: additions about early Luftdienstkommando arrivals in France; the search for two mines jettisoned over German-occupied territory on 18 June 1944; more about a Ju 88 which crashed on 17 August 1944 (with thanks to Laurent Battut) and authorisation to use guided weapons against land targets. Kommando Schäfer: additions for 9 June and 24 July 1944. Sonderstaffel Kaatsch: sighting of a Bf 109 by German army unit near Belfort, on 30 September 1944. Jagdgruppe 200: the 11. Flak Division's claims of two B-17s over Toulouse-Blagnac on 25 June and Nineteenth Army's report on fighter and Flak successes against the 5 July 1944 raid on Toulon. Kampfflieger Vol. 4 (page 339): Army Group B diary entry about IX. Fliegerkorps' belated interventions against the U.S. Army's Operation COBRA. |
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