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Re: NSFK Losses ?
Hello Steve,
Saw your posting and as vintage gliders are one of my interests (I have too many interests as you know), I made enquiries about registers of German glider pilot licenses and pre-war registrations.
During these searches I came across losses as recorded in the Flugzeugunfälle bei den Schulen und sonstige Verbände (RL 2 III/769-780). But... given the amount of gliders in wartime Germany these references IMHO are only a fragment of the accidents and losses among NSFK gliders: 301 accidents/losses for the time span between 12 September 1940 and 15 September 1944 can't be the whole story I guess.
Most rewarding in these records, were a few occasions where a bombed hangar was packed with gliders. One such disaster: on 13 March 1944 a hangar collapsed at Fl.Pl.Hornberg which destroyed 14 gliders (11 Grunau Baby's and 3 SG.38's) of the NSFK Gruppe 15.
All the best, Marcel
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airfield Venlo in WW-2, I./NJG 1, He219-project
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