22/12/07
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Major revision of the article on Aufklärungsstaffel Kaatsch, now approximately doubled in length and with details of several of the unit's losses.
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Minor corrections to NSG 9: Chapter 10 (re Hptm. Willi Wilzopolski) and to Operation Dragoon (Werk Nummer of Fw. Tanck's aircraft, II./JG 77).
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28/10/07
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Kampfflieger Volume 4 page 363: additional details of the Me 262s on strength with I./KG 51 in January 1945 including several "new" aircraft.
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NSG 9: Chapter 10, new information on the careers of Maj. Robert Rohn and Hptm. Eduard Reither after they left NSG 9.
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20/10/07
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NSG 9: Chapter 10, new material on the career of Hptm. Willi Wilzopolski.
NJG 6 in Italy: missing report for Uffz. Alfred Mrusek's crew, January 1945.
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Markings and Camouflage: a message to Heinkel in Vienna about the application of colour 82 and the placement of national markings on an unspecified type (apparently the He 162).
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Minor corrections elsewhere. Coming soon: more on the Me 262s of KG 51.
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13/10/07
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Kampfflieger Volume 4 page 363: Werk Nummern and tactical markings of all 25 Me 262s on strength with I./KG 51 on 6 January 1945. Also the Werk Nummern of eight aircraft transferred to the Gruppe on 3 January from II./KG 51.
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02/09/07
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New section added with updates, additions and corrections to the book Schlachtflieger: Luftwaffe Ground-Attack Units 1937–1945, including:
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A new article about NSG 1 on the Western Front in 1945, with six appendices and a map.
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Additional material about NSG 20's strength, losses and the Werk Nummern of some of its Fw 190s.
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The two existing articles about SG 4 in Italy have been relocated to the Schlachtflieger section
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Kampfflieger Volume 4 pages 348–9: added the name of the pilot of Fw 190 F-8 "green 5" of III./KG 51 in October 1944.
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05/08/07
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Operation Dragoon: additional information about II./JG 77's move to France; confirmation that Seenotkdo. Berre flew the Bréguet Bizerte and that the unit was transferred to Germany on 16 August 1944; more about Fw 190s of NAGr. 13 in Appendix 3.
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Kampfflieger Volume 4 page 352: additonal information on Me 262s serving with KG 51 in November 1944.
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Markings and Camouflage: revisions to third page.
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19/05/07
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Kampfflieger Volume 4 page 371: Werk Nummern and/or unit codes of 97 Me 262s (taken from deciphered signals and almost all belonging to KG 51) between late February and late March 1945.
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Operation Dragoon: a number of new aircraft added to the Appendices as well as additional details on others. Includes three Fw 190s of 2./NAG 13 and a Bf 109 wreck "reassigned" to another unit, on the basis of new information.
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NSG 9: code and Werk Nummer of an Fw 190 F-8 damaged on 27 February 1945 added to Appendix Three: Aircraft lost or damaged.
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18/03/07
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Additions to Kampfflieger Volume 4 page 325, linking to an online account of author Joseph Heller's combat experiences which include the German raid on airfields in Corsica in May 1944. (Thanks to Yves Marino).
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Addition to the Kampfflieger Volume 4 introduction, linking to two reviews posted online by readers.
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Cover image, title and ISBN of a forthcoming book that I've contributed to.
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SG 4 Last Battles in Italy: 14 May 1944, link to a Signals Intelligence report on the bombing of Piacenza that day (including a track map of the bombers and defending fighters).
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NAG 13 pages: two more accident reports on Bf 109s of this Gruppe.
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NSG 9: Chapter 10, German report about the loss of an Hs 126 added to the page on No. 249 Squadron's action over Yugoslavia on 26 May 1944.
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09/03/07
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Major revisions and additions to the Operation Dragoon article with changes to most of the pages and a whole new appendix of Bf 109, Fw 190 and Ju 88 Werk Nummern taken from deciphered signals. Amongst other changes are what I hope are more accurate interpretations of the combats on 12 and 16 August; a brief after-action report from a mission by II./JG 77 against French Resistance fighters; one loss from II./KG 100 is now attributed to a different action; and the pilot and code of a 2.(F)/122 Me 410 detached to France are included.
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Additions to Kampfflieger Volume 4 page 299: details of two Ju 88s missing after the raid on Bari and an Me 410 shot down during a reconnaissance of the port two days later.
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NSG 9: Chapter 6, a photograph of Gefr. Wilhelm Happe of 1./NSG 9, who died in a flying accident on 3 July 1944.
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NSG 9: Chapter 11, additional discussion of Ju 87s with Werk Nummern in the "3-1100" and "3-1200" series.
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03/03/07
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War Diary of Stab JG 77 new pages added covering operations in July 1944 and completing the translation of all the pages that I have copies of.
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NSG 9: Chapter 11, new information about a Ju 87 damaged on 25 December 1944.
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NSG 9: Appendices, addition to aircraft loss tables, a page in memory of veteran Willy Ferling, and a link to a new photo of an Fw 190 of 1./NSG 9
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19/01/07
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War Diary of Stab JG 77 new pages added covering operations in June 1944.
Coming soon (-ish): several revisions and additions to the Operation Dragoon article.
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