PERILOUS MOON OCCUPIED FRANCE 1944 RAF No.101 SQN GERMAN LUFTWAFFE NJG Bf110

Description: PERILOUS MOON OCCUPIED FRANCE 1944 RAF No.101 SQN GERMAN LUFTWAFFE NJG Bf110 PERILOUS MOON OCCUPIED FRANCE 1944 RAF No.101 SQN vs GERMAN LUFTWAFFE NJG Bf110 CASEMATE HARDBOUND BOOK with DUSTJACKET in ENGLISH by STUART NIMMO BASED ON THE UNPUBLISHED MEMORIES OF WW2 RAF BOMBER COMMAND PILOT FLIGHT LT NEIL NIMMO DFC AND THE ORIGINAL PERSONAL AND 3RD REICH PAPERS RELATING TO GERMAN LUFTWAFFE PILOT HAUPTMANN HELMUT BERGMANN RK NJG-3 NACHTSJAGER NIGHT FIGHTER PILOT THE RELUCTANT HIPPOPOTAMUS THE RAID ON AULNOYE-AYMERIES 10/11 APRIL 1944 RAF No.101 SQUADRON LANCASTER III THE NIGHT HUNTER GERMAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT FLAK, SEARCHLIGHTS AND SPOTTERS FRENCH TRAINS AND RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE UNDER GERMAN CONTROL MESSERSCHMITT Bf110 NIGHTFIGHTER NJG THE CORRUPTION OF GERMAN YOUTH WARTIME PARIS D-DAY, 6 JUNE 1944 THE GERMAN RETREAT LIBERATION! -------------------- Additional Information from Internet Encyclopedia Helmut Bergmann (26 May 1920 6 August 1944) was a German Luftwaffe military aviator during World War II, a night fighter ace credited with 36 enemy aircraft shot down in 135 combat missions. [Note 1] All of his victories were claimed over the Western Front in nocturnal Defense of the Reich missions against the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command. Born in Bochum, Bergmann volunteered for military service in the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany in 1939 after finishing school. Following flight training, he was initially posted to Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 (NJG 11st Night Fighter Wing) in 1941 before he transferred to Nachtjagdgeschwader 4 (NJG 44th Night Fighter Wing). He claimed his first aerial victory on 19/20 September 1942 and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 9 June 1944. Two months later, on 6 August 1944, he and his crew were killed in action during Operation Lüttich. Bergmann was born on 26 May 1920 in Bochum, the son of Heinrich Bergmann who later served as a Major in the Luftwaffe, and his wife Edith.[1][2] In his childhood, Bergmann was a member of the Hitler Youth and underwent his recruit training in Straubing. He then received his flight training at the Flugzeugführerschule A/B in Eger,[Note 2] present-day Cheb in the Czech Republic. He was then selected to train as a night fighter pilot and posted to the blind flying school Blindflugschule 3 (BFS 33rd blind flying school) at Schwäbisch Hall. There, he trained together with Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer. After completing pilot training in July 1941, he was assigned to the Ergänzungsstaffel (Training/Supplement Squadron) of Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 (NJG 11st Night Fighter Wing) on 15 July. World War II Following the 1939 aerial Battle of the Heligoland Bight, bombing missions by the Royal Air Force (RAF) shifted to the cover of darkness, initiating the Defence of the Reich campaign.[7] By mid-1940, Generalmajor (Brigadier General) Josef Kammhuber had established a night air defense system dubbed the Kammhuber Line. It consisted of a series of control sectors equipped with radars and searchlights and an associated night fighter. Each sector, named a Himmelbett (canopy bed), would direct the night fighter into visual range with target bombers. In 1941, the Luftwaffe started equipping night fighters with airborne radar such as the Lichtenstein radar. This airborne radar did not come into general use until early 1942. Bergmann was assigned to 7. Staffel (7th squadron) of Nachtjagdgeschwader 4 (NJG 44th Night Fighter Wing) on 1 May 1942.[6] He was credited with his first aerial victory on 19/20 September 1942, an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber, claimed shot down at 00:01 approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) south of Verdun.[9] Bergmann was promoted to Oberleutnant (first lieutenant) on 1 April 1943.[10] On 22 April, he was appointed Staffelkapitän of 8. Staffel of NJG 4.[6] On 23 June 1943, Bergmann and his crew were forced to bail out of their Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 (Werknummer 5334factory number) following aerial combat north of Harderwijk and were injured. 10/11 April 1944 Bergmann claimed seven Avro Lancaster bombers shot down in 46 minutes on the night of 10/11 April 1944, all from an RAF Bomber Command raid on the Aulnoye-Aymeries rail marshalling yard on the Franco-Belgian frontier. All of his seven claims were confirmed and 38 Allied aircrew were killed. This was Bergmann's most successful sortie, making him an "ace-in-a-day" for the first time. His first aerial victory of the night was Lancaster ND586 from No. 460 Squadron RAAF was shot down at 02:20 in the vicinity of Vieux-Mareuil. At 02:30, north of Solesmes, he shot down Lancaster LL830 from No. 576 Squadron RAF, 5 minutes later followed by Lancaster ND844 from No. 12 Squadron RAF. His fourth Lancaster of the night was claimed at 02:43 north of Achiet-le-Petit. At 02:50, he attacked Lancaster JB732 from No. 103 Squadron RAF which crashed at Méharicourt. Lancaster DV288 from No. 101 Squadron RAF claimed at 02:54 became his sixth aerial victory of the night. His seventh and last Lancaster shot down that night was claimed at 03:06 over Lancaster MD636 from No. 625 Squadron RAF. Knight's Cross and death On 4 May 1944, Bergmann was transferred to 6. Staffel of NJG 4. That evening, he claimed five further aerial victories. On 9 June 1944, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes) following his 34th aerial victory. The award documentation was signed on 27 September 1944, at the time, Bergmann and his crew were considered missing in action. On 6 August 1944, Bergmann and his crew - radar operator Feldwebel Gunter Hauthal and air gunner Feldwebel Willie Schopp - were shot down and killed in their Bf 110 G-4 (Werknummer 140320) at Mortain on the Cotentin Peninsula. Flight Lieutenant John Surman, flying a Mosquito of No. 604 Squadron RAF, may have shot them down as he claimed a Bf 110 destroyed. However, friendly fire from the 1st SS Leibstandarte Panzer division who were launching Operation Lüttich, the counterattack at Mortain may have been responsible. Following the battle, his remains were found and temporarily buried. He was later reinterred at the Marigny German war cemetery (Block 3Row 31Grave 1182). ---------------------------- Shot down by Luftwaffe nightfighter pilot Helmut Bergmann, Nimmo and his crew were the Germans sixth of seven victims in 46 minutes. With seven wrecked Lancasters and 38 Allied airmen killed, Bergmann had singlehandedly turned what should have been a relatively simple RAF raid into a lifelong nightmare. With barely time to parachute from Q-Queenie, his stricken Lancaster, Neil Nimmos unholy adventure had only just begun. Unusually, Perilous Moon follows both pilots, Nimmo and Bergmann, through the war after that April night, and continues to observe them as the Occupation of France comes to a sticky end. Three weeks after landing on a Plowed field between Amiens and Abbeville, Neil Nimmo was in Paris, the endlessly mysterious Nazi-occupied French capital. Seething with Nazis and intrigue, the beautiful city remained remarkably unscathed, but steeped in political and moral ambiguity. Alongside the occupying forces, the Gestapo and French collaborators, Paris held its share of remarkably brave, often-fearless Resistance workers. But for the moment, average Parisian life would go on, stubborn French individualism triumphing over politics, and hardship met by resignation or stiff resolve. This odd normality wouldnt last once D-Day came, and after it became clear the desperate Allied gamble had worked, the Germans were caught wrong-footed, and both the Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht supply lines were failing. When the Allies broke out from their beachheads and raced south to Paris, many French changed sides or swayed yet further in the Allies favor. Toward the end, as France became a bloody battlefront, with it came intrigue, score-settling and murder. As the tide turned Neil Nimmo was close to it allthings had changed, the previously reluctant and confirmed collaborator now found his stance a dangerous liability, and an evading Allied airman was now an invaluable and possibly life-saving asset. FREE scheduling, supersized images and templates. Get Vendio Sales Manager.Make your listings stand out with FREE Vendio custom templates! FREE scheduling, supersized images and templates. Get Vendio Sales Manager. Over 100,000,000 served. Get FREE counters from Vendio today!

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