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.

Complete Works: new entries and thumbnail images for things that I've had published.

Axis Wings Volume 1, Sonderstaffel Einhorn: images of the ETC 503 bomb rack; more about I./SG 5 in August–December 1944.

Axis Wings Volume 2, Panthers Taking Pictures: November 1944 proposals for development of the reconnaissance arm; additional Me 262 strength figures for 1./Versuchsverband OKL and Kdo. Braunegg; plans to establish four Me 262 reconnaissance Staffeln.

Kampfflieger Volume 4: details of the bombs dropped during the Bristol Raid of 14/15 May 1944.

6.(F)/123: additional data on aircraft strengths and losses.

He 111 Torpedo Operations, 1940: additions regarding the first He 111 conversions and to the entry for 11 August.

Invasion Watch: additions to the introduction and to the sections about 21 and 26 April, and 15 May and 1 June; detailed unit strengths for 30 April and 31 May 1944.

Sonderstaffel Kaatsch: additions to the entries for 28 and 31 August and for 3 and 30 September; more information about the unit's reported strengths and losses.

The Bf 109 H with 5.(F)/123: two brief progress reports from the Rechlin Experimental Establishment.

SG 4 in Normandy: an additional note on exercises at Cazaux.

Kommando Koch: more about German jamming over Malta on 4/5 July 1942; trials of the Neptun radar in the Mediterranean theatre by 1./Obd.L.

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.