Edited sentence: /KG 6 had not participated in sorties over Britain and was sent to the Eastern Front to support Army Group North where it spent the period September to December 1942 bombing targets on the northern Soviet Union.It attacked the Red Army positions at Gaytolovo and Markovo during the 20-23 September battles.On 25 September it struck rail targets at Chum losing one aircraft and on 28th targets in and around Leningrad were hit.On 30 September another Ju 88A-4 was lost in the Kerstov area.On 4 October the unit was redepolyed to Stalingrad as a planned assault by Erich von Manstein's German Eleventh Army was postponed.Rail targets in Stalingrad were bombed.Soviet artillery in the North Caucasia were bombed from the 9-18 October.Targets near Astrakhan were also bombed.Under Luftflotte 1 it bombed the train station at Volkhov on 15 September and supported ground operations around Lake Ladoga on 16 September