Geschwader Bongart (page 30)

Acknowledgements and sources

Aside from the input cited in the introduction to this article, thanks are due to Andrew Arthy (for extracts from the III./SG 4 Kriegstagebuch that I’d missed). Also to French historians Alain Cerri and Robert Serre whose online material about the Maquis has enabled me to understand why Geschwader Bongart and other units attacked some of the targets they did; Paul Mathevet for his work on crashed aircraft in the Drôme Département; and Philippe Canonne for his continuing investigations of events recorded on memorials in the Indre Département. Ed North contributed useful information about aircraft under repair at Villacoublay. Matti Salonen generously provided extensive details of the Geschwader’s aircraft and personnel casualties. Georg Schlaug contributed information about specific operations by 2./FAG 5 and 4./KG 26; Greg Skaggs generously shared his material on Fw. Otto Schild.

National Archives, Kew, London
AIR 20/7703	Luftflotte 3 Daily Situation Reports, July 1944
AIR 20/7704	Luftflotte 3 Daily Situation Reports, August 1944
AIR 23/3458	MAAF Int. Technical Intelligence Section Report No. 20(F)
AIR 23/6509	M.A.T.A.F.: Int/Opsums Nos. 274–538 (incomplete)
AIR 40/45	Crashed enemy aircraft reports: Nos. 154–270 (incomplete)
AIR 40/152	Fw 190 G
AIR 40/2152	GAF Ops. WEST MED
AIR 40/2161	A.I.2(g) reports 1613–1750 (incomplete)
AIR 40/2680	German Air Intelligence: Miscellaneous Papers and Reports, 1943–1945
AIR 40/3096	SRA 5300–5399, 21/5/44–27/6/44
AIR 40/3114	CSDIC, Central Mediterranean Force: reports CMF/A 405-A590; information obtained from POWs and refugees (1 Jan 1944–31 Dec 1945)
AIR 51/281	MAAF Field Intelligence Unit, Technical Reports Nos. 16 (8 September 1944), 19 (16 September 1944), 20 (24 September 1944) and 21 (25 September 1944)
HS 6/361	SOE, EUCALYPTUS: communications with London on conditions and supply needs; disruption of road and rail communications; court of enquiry findings: 1944–1945
HS 6/424	Security file: EUCALYPTUS military mission to Vercors; liaison
HS 6/425	Security file: EUCALYPTUS mission court of enquiry
HS 9/339/2	Anne-Marie COMERT, née WALTERS, Report on Mission to France
HS 9/1407/1	George Reginald STARR — born 06.04.1904 (1939–46)
HW 5/428–634	Government Code and Cypher School: German Section: Reports of German Army and Air Force High Grade Machine Decrypts (CX/FJ, CX/JQ and CX/MSS Reports), 27 January–21 December 1944
HW 13/20	Summaries of GAF Operational Activities: Mar 2 1944–Aug 22 1944
HW 13/38	GNA Vol. XII, OPD 1086–1129: 1 January – 31 March 1944
HW 16/42	Decrypts of all other GP codes other than No 3, issued as BP daily reports in GPD series (1944 Aug–1945 Feb)
WO 218/4134	CSDIC (UK) SRA Reports 5537, 5538
WO 228/27/2	Condensed History — 79 Fighter Group
Imperial War Museum, London (Department of Documents)
Air Historical Branch 6 microfilm reel 16: Kriegstagebuch der III./SG 4 (1.11.43–3.7.44)
Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg-im-Breisgau
RH19 IV/51	Tagesmeldung OB West IA, 21–30 July 1944
RL2 IV/40	Invasions-Kalender über den Einsatz der fdl. u. eig. Luftwaffe, 21–26 July 1944
(BA-MA items received via Geoff Thomas and Georg Schlaug, circa 1993–94)

Archivio Storico Istituto Luce, Cinecittà, Rome

Combat film RW471

Private correspondence

Geoff Thomas to author, 7 January 1992

Greg Skaggs to author, 7 April 2018

Books

Pierre Babin: La Wekusta 2 au Combat, 1940–1944 (Heimdal, 2106) ISBN 978-2840484301

Claude Barbier: Le maquis de Glières: Mythe et réalité (Librairie Académique Perrin, 2014) ISBN 978-2262040093 [extracts online retrieved, 23 August 2014]

Matthew Cobb: The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis (Pocket Books, 2010) ISBN 978-1847391568

Pearl Cornioley: « Pauline », Parachutée en 1943 (Éditions Par Exemple, 2008) ISBN 978-2951374607

Jean-Bernard Frappé: La Luftwaffe face au débarquement allié (Éditions Heimdal, Bayeux 1999) ISBN 2 84048 126 X

Dr. Günther W. Gellermann: Moskau Ruft Heeresgruppe Mitte (Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz, 1988) ISBN 3-7637-5851-8

Michel Germain: Chronique de la Haute-Savoie pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale: Tome 4, Le prix de la liberté, de la bataille des Glières à la Libération et au-delà ... 26 mars 1944-19 août 1944 (La Fontaine de Siloé, 1999) ISBN 2-84206-095-4

Robert Gildea: Fighters In The Shadows: A New History Of The French Resistance (Faber & Faber, 2016) ISBN 978–0–571–28036–0

Chris Goss: Bloody Biscay: The Story of the Luftwaffe's Only Long Range Maritime Fighter Unit, V. Gruppe/Kampfgeschwader 40 and Its Adversaries, 1942–1944 (Crécy Publishing Ltd., 1997) ISBN 0 947554 62 9

William Green: War Planes of the Second World War: Fighters, Volume Two (Macdonald & Co. 1965)

Max Hastings: Das Reich, the March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division through France, June 1944 (Pan, 1983) ISBN 0 330 26966 6

H. R. Kedward: In Search of the Maquis : Rural Resistance in Southern France 1942-1944 (OUP 1995) ISBN 9780198205784

David King: Death in the City of Light (Sphere, 2012) ISBN 978-0-7515-4845-7

Claude Larronde: L’arsenal de Tarbes: histoire et patrimoine (Société académique des Hautes-Pyrénées, 1991)

Peter Lieb: Vercors 1944, Resistance in the French Alps (Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2012) ISBN 9781849086981

John Man: The Penguin Atlas of D-Day and the Normandy Campaign (Penguin Books, 1994) ISBN 0-14-023859-X

Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer: Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying: The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs (Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2013) ISBN 978-1849839495

Geoffrey J. Thomas & Barry Ketley: KG 200, the Luftwaffe’s Most Secret Squadron (Hikoki Publications Ltd., 2003) ISBN 978-1902109336

Jean-Louis Roba: La Kampfgeschwader 100 — L’escadre au Drakkar (1938–1944) (Éditions LELA PRESSE, 2015) ISBN 2-914017-82-4

Michel Riou and Michel Rissoan: Ardèche, terre d'histoire: histoire de l'Ardèche et de l'ancien Vivarais (La Fontaine de Siloé, 2007) 978-2842063825 [extracts online retrieved August–September 2014]

Barry Rosch: Luftwaffe Codes and Markings 1939–45 (Author’s draft, 3rd Edition, 1991)

John K. Singlaub: Hazardous Duty: An American Soldier in the Twentieth Century (Summit Books, 1991) ISBN 9780671705169

Gilles Vergnon: Le Vercors: histoire et mémoire d'un maquis (Éditions de l'Atelier, 2002) ISBN 2-7082-3631-8

Patrick Veyret: Histoire secrète des Maquis de l’Ain (Éditions La Taillanderie 2010) ISBN 978-2876293250 [extracts online retrieved August–September 2014]

Albin Vilhet: Mes Mémoires, manuscrit sur cahier d’écolier — La Résistance dans le Nyonsais (self-published, 1982) [annotated extracts online, retrieved 2 May 2014]

Col. Christian Wyler: La longue marche de la 157e division (Revue Militaire Suisse No. 130/1985) via www.e-periodica.ch

Articles

Rémi Baudru: Vom Denkmal zum Museumsstück, Jet & Prop 5/92 (November/December 1992)

Rémi Baudru: La Reggiane du “Geschwader Bongart”, unknown publication (23 January 1993)

Rémi Baudru: Le Reggiane de Limoges, Le Fana de l’Aviation No. 292 (March 1994)

(Baudru French-language items via the late Geoff Thomas)

Nick Beale, James V. Crow, Larry de Zeng: Geschwader Bongart, Luftwaffe Verband Journal No. 19 (July 1999)

Cercle Aéronautique Louis Mouillard (C.A.L.M): Les Bombardements de Représailles Allemandes sur la Région Rhône-Alpes, Été 1944, retrieved online at http://calm.sopixi.fr/files/bombardement-repraisaille-allemand-ete-1944.pdf

Bruno Chaix: Le passage des troupes allemandes par le Coiron en août 1944, retrieved online at http://www.memoire-ardeche.com/libre_acces/coiron_chaix.pdf

Peter H. Nash: Le massif du Vercors en 1945. Etude sur les dévastations causées par l'Armée allemande …, Revue de géographie alpine (Year 1946, Vol. 34, Issue 34-1) retieved online at: http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rga_0035-1121_1946_num_34_1_5267?_Prescripts_Search_tabs1=standard&

Jean-Louis Roba: Sonderkommando Bongart, Luftwaffe Verband Journal No.18 (May 1999)

Le Confédéré (newspaper): Morgins bombardé par des avions allemands (7 August 1944), Après le bombardement de Morgins, récit d'um témoin and À travers le monde (9 August 1944) [retrieved online at: http://newspaper.archives.rero.ch/olive/APA/SNL_FR/default.aspx?action=tab&tab=browse&pub=LCE#panel=browse, August–September 2017]

Nouvelliste valaisan (newspaper): Le bombardement de Morgins — L'état des blessés — La douleureuse émotion à Berne (9 August 1944) [retrieved online at http://doc.rero.ch/record/187469/files/1944-08-09.pdf, September 2014]

Le Rhône (newspaper): Morgins reçoit des bombes allemandes — nombreux blessés (8 August 1944)

Film

“juillet 44 : le maquis du Vercors anéanti par les SS et par la Milice” retrieved at http://www.ina.fr/video/I00010153

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