[quote=Nick Beale;102246]Looking at Saalbach on Google Earth, it's not obvious where you'd put a runway, especially for a jet to take off or land. I wonder whether they abandoned their remaining aircraft at Riem and the personnel retreated to Saalbach to wait out the end of the war (as elements of NSG 9 did at Kufstein).
Dear Nick,
You and RolandF are correct; 1.(F)100 was in Austria but alpine Saalbach was only a place for Stab and non flying parts to wait for the end of hostilities, or "officially" to "regroup" for the final operational chapter of the Luftwaffe in southern Germany, the
Luftwaffen Division Nordalpen, for which (F)100 parts should form a mixed jet recon unit.
Actually parts of (F)100 were located at FlPl Hoersching and FlPl Zeltweg. The Hoersching airbase was actually prepared for jets as there was J2 jet fuel for serveral week of operation available for other operational reasons (to continue jet operations at Prague and Salzburg Area). Besides one of the large underground Me 262 manufacturing was established in Upper Austria (Gusen).
If Ar 234 were operational at Hoersching is not jet confirmed.
I am preparing a (2nd) book on the
Luftwaffe in Austria (see
www.oefh.at ) therefore these information may be regarded as relayable and confirmed by several sources.
Martin