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NJG crew member
Good evening !
My late basic-school teacher told us pupils, when he was in the equivalent mood, about his WW II memories. This was in the late sixties and the early seventies of last century. He passed away in 1974.
He told then, that he was a crew member of a "Nachtjäger"-crew and spoke about his fragmentary memories of this time.
I'm now a bit curious, to find out something of his NJG or if all was possible only a hoax.
The facts:
- His name is Karl Heinz, *February 7th, 1920
- He lived pre-war at Orenhofen, Kreis Bitburg, Germany
My memories :
- He told us, that he was a "Nachtjäger"-crew, but not a pilot.
- In a case of danger on the mission, he was able to move armour-plates in the a/c to protect his crew-position variable
- The Nachtjäger-crews were provided wih carot-containing meals as often as possible, to keep their ability of night-observation
- They also had to eat raw-carot rations
- By my (dark) memories, he spoke more about a Bf-110 as his a/c type
- He must have had a considerable geographical knowledge about the landscape of the German "Ostfriesischen Inseln". By my memories, this was always in his (scholar) geography a big theme and in my memory, this geo-area played a certain role in his Nachtjäger-time.
- He never told us about a crash, a wounding or an incident to be into an NVLM. All other is speculation.
Is anyone of you able to give me more information, in particular of his unit ?
Thank you very much !
Horst Weber
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