UPDATES

2019's additions and corrections to the site are listed opposite, with the most recent at the top.

The Ghost Bombers website is 15 years old today.

Kommando Koch: additions throughout

Kommando Rastedter: several additions, including more about Aphrodite, Thetis and Unternehmen Cerberus

Sonderstaffel Kaatsch: one addition about reconnaissance from Italy in support of 157. Reseerve Division

Nachtjagdstaffel Norwegen: one addition from a Kriegsmarine report

SG 4 and the Battle for Normandy: a British account of the bombing of Horsa Bridge on 8 June 1944

Invasion Watch, an addition for 5 May 1944

Kampfflieger Vol. 4: additions regarding the 26/27 August 1944 raid on Paris, including a bomb-damage photograph courtesy of Philippe Canonne

Geschwader Bongart: SOE Jedburgh Team reports on actions at Le Cheylard and Privas.

Kampfflieger Vol. 4: an expanded account of the raid on Bari (2 December 1943)

Kampfflieger Vol. 4: a report of aircrew opinions about the He 177 (19 February 1944)

Kampfflieger Vol. 4: an extensive account of the operation against convoy UGS-40, "ELEMENT"
(9–11 May 1944)

Operation Paula (3 June 1940): numerous additions.

Adlertag (13 August 1940): additional details from OKW conferences.

He 111 torpedo operations: extracts added from Kriegsmarine War Diaries.

KGr. 100, the first weeks in France: two small additions (3 and 17 August 1940)

Camouflage and markings: an instruction given on 29 August 1940.

1940 loss reports: more about the RAF's attack on Eindhoven (9–10 September 1940)

Kommando Koch: an addition to the Operation Cerberus page from a Kriegsmarine chronology.

Geschwader Bongart: an addition about Operation Maibaum.

Operation Zeisig: more about two captured airmen.

NSG 9: Bernd Schewen and SG 151 aircraft, corrections thanks to Nigel Moore.

Various minor corrections.

Kommando Koch: extensive additions including No. 89 Squadron's "special Beaufighters" and centimetric radar; a little more about Führungskette X. Fliegerkorps; the Northolt Defiant Flight and the RAF "Moonshine" jamming sorties; German airborne jamming during The Channel Dash; RAF homing-on-jamming trials; and an early offer to the RAF of a VHF jammer.

Geschwader Bongart: additions throughout, including new pages on Kdo. Schäfer (3./KG 200).

Operation Paula: addition about the involvement of signals relay aircraft.

Ghost Bombers … NSG 9: a letter from September 1944 about Canadian troops' experience of attacks by NSG 9.

Ultra and Adlertag: minor additions.

Invasion Watch: addition of two reports by the Japanese Military Attaché on the results of sorties.

Kampfflieger Vol. 4: more about the 1944 raids on Bristol and the August 1944 attack on Paris.

Various corrections to typos and layouts and evening out some page lengths.

Geschwader Bongart: additional material regarding Glières; a "special operation" by 9./SG 4 from Valence on 5 June 1944; the Battle of Guéret (thanks to the continuing efforts of Philippe Canonne); the later career of Bongart's Obltn. Higgelke, Kapitän of the 13. Staffel; a Kriegsmarine reference to Operation CADILLAC; sorties against Murat on 15 August.

I./JG 2 in Italy: extracts from Ob. SW daily situation reports.

Kommando Koch: various additions, mainly about No. 89 Squadron operations from Malta.

Kommando Rastedter: more about Thetis decoys (January 1944) Naxos (February) and the vulnerability of Allied systems (March).

Invasion Watch: several additions from Kriegsmarine sources including reconnaissance results from the early months of 1944.

Staffel Kaatsch: various small additions including reconnaissance of the Franco-Italian border by Luftflotte 2 in August 1944.

JGr. 200: a table of pilots' victory clams.

III./SG 4 and the Battle for Normandy: expanded to include (amongst other things) more about live-fire exercises early in 1944 and operations in response to the Invasion.

Kampfgruppe 100, the first weeks in France: various additions including a German assessment of the first attack on Castle Bromwich.

KGr. 100 and the Coventry Blitz: German reports on damage caused by Operation Medium; figures for bomb tonnages dropped on Coventry and Birmingham; some duplicated material removed.

Kampfflieger Vol. 4: a German communiqué about a raid on Hull; the attack on Paris, 26 August 1944, additions about AA and civil defences.

Corrections to typos and layouts, changes to pagination.

Kampfflieger Vol. 4: three new pages about the raid on Paris on 26/27 August 1944; additions about the abortive attack on Bristol on 14/15 May 1944; more about the Kettenhund jamming transmitter.

Kommando Koch: extensive new material on the unit's operations; more about the loss of an He 111 of Führungskette Fl.Kps. X; anti-jamming operations by the RAF's Nos. 49 and 86 Squadrons; a new page on British development from 1941 of systems to home on jamming aircraft; characteristics of the German Kobold jamming set.

Kommando Rastedter: a year-end assessment for 1943; more about development of the Roderich jammer and various smaller additions; a new page about radar-monitoring operations over the North Sea in Summer 1944.

Heinz Hauck and 6.(F)/123: an additional paragraph about suspected radars on Mediterranean fishing boats.

Sonderstaffel Kaatsch: numerous additions concerning the unit's operations during September 1944.

Geschwader Bongart: some information about the French Resistance's own airpower; an Re. 2002 abandoned at Reims.

II./SG 10 in Yugoslavia: an addition about Ogefr. Franz Antes.