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Acknowledgements and sources
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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) and Neil Page (for the pointer to www.ina.fr). 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
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AIR 20/7703
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Luftflotte 3 Daily Situation Reports, July 1944
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AIR 20/7704
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Luftflotte 3 Daily Situation Reports, August 1944
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AIR 23/3458
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MAAF Int. Technical Intelligence Section Report No. 20(F)
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AIR 23/6509
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M.A.T.A.F.: Int/Opsums Nos. 274–538 (incomplete)
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AIR 40/45
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Crashed enemy aircraft reports: Nos. 154–270 (incomplete)
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AIR 40/152
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Fw 190 G
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AIR 40/2152
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GAF Ops. WEST MED
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AIR 40/2161
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A.I.2(g) reports 1613–1750 (incomplete)
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AIR 40/2680
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German Air Intelligence: Miscellaneous Papers and Reports, 1943–1945
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AIR 40/2859
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Various technical reports on German Air Force aircraft and equipment (1 March–30 November 1944)
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AIR 40/3096
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SRA 5300–5399, 21/5/44–27/6/44
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AIR 40/3114
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CSDIC, Central Mediterranean Force: reports CMF/A 405-A590; information obtained from POWs and refugees (1 Jan 1944–31 Dec 1945)
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AIR 51/281
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MAAF Field Intelligence Unit, Technical Reports Nos. 16 (8 September 1944), 19 (16 September 1944), 20 (24 September 1944) and 21 (25 September 1944)
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HS 6/361
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SOE, EUCALYPTUS: communications with London on conditions and supply needs; disruption of road and rail communications; court of enquiry findings: 1944–1945
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HS 6/424
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Security file: EUCALYPTUS military mission to Vercors; liaison
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HS 6/425
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Security file: EUCALYPTUS mission court of enquiry
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HS 9/339/2
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Anne-Marie COMERT, née WALTERS, Report on Mission to France
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HS 9/1407/1
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George Reginald STARR — born 06.04.1904 (1939–46)
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HW 5/428–634
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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
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HW 13/20
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Summaries of GAF Operational Activities: Mar 2 1944–Aug 22 1944
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HW 13/38
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GNA Vol. XII, OPD 1086–1129: 1 January – 31 March 1944
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HW 16/42
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Decrypts of all other GP codes other than No 3, issued as BP daily reports in GPD series (1944 Aug–1945 Feb)
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WO 218/4134
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CSDIC (UK) SRA Reports 5537, 5538
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WO 228/27/2
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Condensed History — 79 Fighter Group
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Imperial War Museum, London (Department of Documents)
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Air Historical Branch 6 microfilm reel 16: Kriegstagebuch der III./SG 4 (1.11.43–3.7.44)
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Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg-im-Breisgau
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RH19 IV/51
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Tagesmeldung OB West IA, 21–30 July 1944
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RL2 IV/40
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Invasions-Kalender über den Einsatz der fdl. u. eig. Luftwaffe, 21–26 July 1944
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(BA-MA items received via Geoff Thomas and Georg Schlaug, circa 1993–94)
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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
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