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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.
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