Re: Bf 109 G lost early 1944
 

Yes, I guess you are right. Both Kromer and Lalame were lost on 8. March. Wrong entries in my files :evil2:

Re: Bf 109 G lost early 1944
 

The list of JG 54 pilots from one pulication shows three Mullers (umlaut over u) serving with III/JG54 Ogef. Arthur Muller KIA 4-2-45, Ofw Siegfried Muller (KIA 21-2-45 with 11/54 and Fw.Wilhelm Muller ( baled out of Fw190A8 of 7/54 on 8-6-44 ). There is also a Uffz Erwin Muller wounded on 6-3-44 with 9/54.
Would this make Fw. Wilhelm Muller a possibility being in 7/54 and with the crash location being Suhlendorf/Uelzen with the other 7/54 109 that day coming down at Dedelsdorf/Uelzen.
If Fw Muller was not injured in the belly-landing he would not appear on the pilots loss list.

Brian Bines

Bf 109 G lost early 1944
 

Servus, David et al.!

Regarding the Bf 109G we. 3 + of 7./JG 54 photographed with battle damage following a belly landing, I would like to note the following.

I hold a copy of a manuscript KTB for 7./JG 54 ("Staffelchronik 7./JG 54") and have examined the entry for 8. April 1944. It is fairly detailed, about 8-10 lines long. The only loss mentioned for the day is that of Kurt Ritter, gef. near
Dedelsdorf, as noted by other readers previously. Overall, the "Chronik" is not consistent in recording losses, especially lesser and minor ones, but in this case I do get the feeling that had an airplane from the Staffel bellylanded on this day, it would have been mentioned. So perhaps we should be looking at 7./JG 54 losses for other days in February and March? Sadly, we know there were a great many in this period. Because there seemingly was only a materiel loss with the we. 3 + , however, there may well be no surviving documentation for the nice photos that David has put up on the Falcon's Hangar.

RA