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Originally Posted by kkarlsen
Thank's I have read your 'Ar 234 in Norway & Denmark´article, several times.
Maybe it's me, but it only seems to mention sorties out of Wittmundhafen, Stavanger and Schleswig?
Regards: Kent
PS: I assume the 'Luftwaffe General Denmark' is referring to the operations being led from Grove, Denmark?
Regards: Kent
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There are references in the article to units being transferred to Grove but I can't confirm that any operations were flown from there although for example "The Luftwaffe’s Commanding General in Denmark reported two attempted evening missions by Ar 234s on the 6th" does suggest that these flights were made from his area of command. However, as the article says, he also reported on flights from Schleswig.
There is also this:
The General der Aufklärungsflieger announced on 21 April that 1./FAG 5 was being disbanded and that 1.(F)/33 was taking over the “entire task” of reconnaissance for U-boat operations. As a result, Einsatzkommando 1./FAG 5 would be renamed Einsatzkommando 1.(F)/33 and subsumed into 1./FAG 33.
This is very close to the end of the war but since 1.(F)/33 and 1./FAG 5 were at Grove at the time of the surrender, it seems quite possible that Ar 234s did operate from there.