Rodeo 416 21 Feb 1945
 

Hi all
Could you please help me to find out any informations about JG54 losses. Does anyone have any details of Oblt. Dortenman's pilots, planes flown on 21st of Febr.1945?

Re: Rodeo 416 21 Feb 1945
 

Hi,
Bob Wartburg´s JG 54 site lists following losses for that day:

Ofw. Bienecke Paul, 6./JG54, Luftkampf with Jak 3, KIA,
FW 190A-8 W.Nr.736294, yellow 9+,100%, 5km nord east of Durben

Ofw. Műller Siegfried (40 vics., DKiG), 11./JG54, Luftkampf with P 47, KIA,
FW 190 D-9 W.Nr.210088, yellow 10+,100%, near Fl. Pl. Babenhausen

Lt. Prager Hans (32 vics.), 11/JG 54, Luftkampf with P 47, KIA,
FW 190 D-9 W.Nr.?, ? %, near Varrelbusch

Fw.Kroll Gerhard, 9./JG54, Luftkampf with P 51, KIA,
FW 190 D-9 W.Nr.?, ? %, Fl. Pl. Hesepe

Also Ogefr.Műnster Siegfried from IV./JG54 is listed as KIA with no other details

Jan

Re: Rodeo 416 21 Feb 1945
 

Many thanks, Jan

Regards

Re: Rodeo 416 21 Feb 1945
 

During the same fight Do 217 was shot down around 8 km away from Salzwedel. Who knows about which unit this plane was from?

Re: Rodeo 416 21 Feb 1945
 

Just a correction: Gerhard Kroll was not KIA -- I spoke to him at a fighter pilot symposium in the late 1990's and he passed away in March 2002.

On Feb 21 1945, his aircraft's tail surfaces were damaged in combat with P-51s, and he landed at Hesepe. The next day, his aircraft was damaged again, this time in combat with Tempests and P-51s (source: loss list in Axel Urbanke's "Green Hearts.")

Leon Venter

Re: Rodeo 416 21 Feb 1945
 

Well, either III/JG54 losses are incomplete or there was another unit involved, but where there any other Doras around?

Re: Rodeo 416 21 Feb 1945
 

Guys: IF I'm not mistaken (AND I might well be...) Hans Prager also survived the war, no? I don't recall him being a casualty in either the Urbanke book or in Caldwell's War Diary;

nickm