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Old 21st December 2005, 21:08
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Re: Hauptmann Fritz E. Krause, NJG 11?

Thanks for your replies guys!

A few things:
- Krause flew according to his own words the Blue Doppelwinkel on his flight to Kjevik. In the Aeroplane Monthly there's a quite detailed account written by Urbanke about the different movements on the final days of the war as the Leck-based planes flew North through Vejle and Århus in Denmark on their way to Kjevik, Lista and also Stavanger
- One of the G-10's at Kjevik had the gondola guns according to Hafsten's list from May 45.
- (One Schwarm from I./JG 11 got to Norway, the rest of that Gruppe remained in Denmark) Irrelevant. Wrong Geschwader.
- Quite a lot of aircraft from 7./NJG arrived, though only one appears to have been nailed down to that unit, possibly the Bf 109G-14 flown by Willi Budel who did a ground loop on landing due to exhaustion from the tight formation flight with Krause. Budel's plane was apparently damaged perhaps even before departure and ended up as a 60% damage after landing if my interpretation is right.

Edit: JG 11 has nothing to do with this.

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