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Re: Fw. Hans Richter I/NAGr.1 24-12-1944

Thanks for posting the photo,

Regards

Brian Bines

Re: Fw. Hans Richter I/NAGr.1 24-12-1944

Hi Brian,

From my collection, Schuster & Kohla whilst serving with 4./(F)123, France 1944.

Regards

Melvin

www.aircrewremembrancesociety.com

Re: Fw. Hans Richter I/NAGr.1 24-12-1944

Hi Melvin,

Thanks very much for posting the photos,

Best Wishes

Brian Bines

Re: Fw. Hans Richter I/NAGr.1 24-12-1944

No problem Brian, you have helped me no end in the past, its the least I could do, the photos came from the album of Herbert Blochberger.

Regards

Melvin

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Re: Fw. Hans Richter I/NAGr.1 24-12-1944

Quote:

Originally Posted by Larry deZeng (Post 148180)

February 1945: began receiving Messerschmitt Me 262 jets at Herzogenaurach.

Where in Herzogenaurach was an airfield usable for Me 262's?

Re: Fw. Hans Richter I/NAGr.1 24-12-1944

Herzogenaurach
Dimensions: approx 750 x 1,400 meters.
Runway: grass surface with two camouflaged concrete starting platforms at the NW and SW corners of the landing area. The field had a beam approach system, perimeter lighting and obstruction lighting.
[above information as of 17 November 1944]

Answer: nowhere. To the best of my knowledge, Herzogenaurach was not intended to be an operational airfield for the Me 262. That entry came from an ULTRA signal, I believe, and appears to have been mis-translated. It probably means, "1./NAGr. 1 at Herzogenaurach began receiving Me 262s in February 1945." As you know, a unit could be billeted at almost any airfield and the pilots ordered to report to Lechfeld, Neuburg/Donau, u.a., for Me 262 conversion training. On completion of the re-equipping and conversion process, the unit would be transferred to an operational airfield with a runway capable to handling the Me 262. There were quite a number of airfields in Germany that were having their runways extended and hardened from fall 1944 through spring 1945 so they could handle the jet aircraft.

L.

Re: Fw. Hans Richter I/NAGr.1 24-12-1944

Quote:

Originally Posted by Larry deZeng (Post 148495)

To the best of my knowledge, Herzogenaurach was not intended to be an operational airfield for the Me 262. That entry came from an ULTRA signal, I believe, and appears to have been mis-translated. It probably means, "1./NAGr. 1 at Herzogenaurach began receiving Me 262s in February 1945."

Ultra makes pretty good sense overall on 1./NAG 1 and the Me 262. It does look like the Staffel (and definitely the ground echelon) was in Herzogenaurach but the jets were not. They had not been allocated their Me 262s as late as 15 March 1945, although the inference is that they are about to get them.

Re: Fw. Hans Richter I/NAGr.1 24-12-1944

Schuster hs been already wounded on sept.44

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Schuster was born i. Leipzig on 29.Dec. 1920

Rémi