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Re: 1.(H)/Aufkl.Gr.31 in Oct.44
Andy & Andrey -
Let's look at the remaining entries for this Staffel following the 6.10.44 entry given above:
Silesia and Czechoslovakia. (Oct 44 - May 45)
1.12.44: Staffel reported 8 x Fw 189 A-2 and 1 x Fw 189 A-3 on strength. The same unconfirmed sources state that it was based at Neisse and nearby Möckendorf from December 1944 to March 1945.
2.45: under NAGr. 2.
17.2.45: Fw 189 A-2 shot down by AA-fire SE of Gross-Strehlitz, 100%, 1 WIA and 2 MIA.
17.3.45: Fw 189 A-2 crashed SE of Münsterberg, 100%, 2 killed.
26.3.45: at Glatz (Klodzko) under NAGr. 2 with Fw 189s.
29.3.45: now at Olmütz (Olomouc)-West under NAGr. 2.
3.5.45: Nahaufklärungsstaffel 1./31 (Nacht) at Zauchtel/Czech. under NAGr. 2.
FpN: 1. (H)/31 (L04202).
This tells us that it was indeed retrained at Bromburg for use at night according to its 1945 designation, Nahaufklärungsstaffel 1./31 (Nacht). I know this is correct because it's exactly as it appears in the Luftflotte 6 documentation for 1945.
So, since there was never a unit designated Nachtnahaufklärungsstaffel 1./31 per the 26.1.45 Soldbuch entry on Andy's Wiki Forum, then it appears that a Luftwaffe clerk got confused when making the entry and it came out all garbled up. This was not unusual for the last 2 or 3 years of the war as many unit designations were changed into something more elaborate or descriptive and clerks making the entries occasionally made mistakes.
L.
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