First of all, thanks to all of you who responded. I really appreciate the extra details and info. Felt a bit overwhelmed for a bit because nobody I talked to about this stuff seemed to have any information so I felt a bit lost.
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Originally Posted by PMoz99
Hello nvchad2.
When you looked at ww2.dk info as in the 4th link you provided, did you scroll to the bottom of the page and check the Flugzeugbestand und Bewegungsmeldungen info?
You'll find it says IV./KG76 had He-111H-20 and H-21 from 7/44-12/44, and no Me-262.
So I'd say the answer to your 2 questions are yes IV./KG76 did have He-111, and no, the Me-262 belonged to EKG1.
Peter
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I completely missed that. I had previously looked through those but couldn't understand exactly what they were showing so I must've pushed it out of my mind. If anyone would be kind enough to explain what the various columns mean I would be really grateful.
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Originally Posted by Nick Beale
Serious researchers Dan O'Connell and David E. Brown have posted here that KG 76 had a couple of Me 262 and used them for reconnaissance but I don't know their sources for this. My own efforts have never uncovered a single Me 262 with KG 76, whether in a strength return, a loss report, a deciphered signal, Luftwaffenkommando West daily operations report or an Allied radio monitoring summary. What I do have is that during the actiions against the Remagen bridgehead the Me 262s and Ar 234s of KG 51 and KG 76 were under a single ad hoc tactical command, Gefechtsverband Kowalewski. Kowalewski was also KG 76's Kommodore but that didn't make KG 51 part of KG 76.
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I read part of an interview with Dietrich Peltz where he says: “Once we had several dozen of the Me 262s arriving to KG-54, KG-51, and KG-76, I was informed that the Arado models were coming and already assembled." But that's the only somewhat official sounding information I've found regarding KG 76 using Me 262s, so I'm also inclined to think it was with another unit.
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Originally Posted by ju55dk
III/EKG 1 only trained on Ar 234. They did not have any Me 262.
IV/EKG 1 Vkz 9V+ did have a few Me 262, but they were incorporated in KG 51 mid april 1945.
Source. Die Flugzeugführer-Ausbildung der Deutschen Luftwaffe Volume II.
Wikipedia is not to be used as a source. Anyone can write what they like.
Junker
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Hmm...does anyone know where Michael Holm got his information for the
ww2.dk site? It shows III./EKG1 using Me 262B-1a in addition to Ar 234s. Mostly just curious now. Seems like a lot of conflicting information out there and verifying sources is REALLY difficult for some stuff. Especially since people have had 70+ years now to mis-interpret or mis-quote stuff.