[Charles Bavarois]

Luftwaffe used to report their losses in many different ways. One are the “Namentliche Verlustmeldungen NVM”, which were filed when somebody was killed, wounded or went missing. When comparing numbers in aircraft there are the “Generalquartiermeister-Meldungen GQM” listing aircraft damaged more than 10% and total losses. These reports are missing for 1944.

There are two other sources: The “Flugzeugbewegungsmeldungen”, filed on a monthly basis and showing the number of aircraft available, received und lost for each unit. And somebody made summaries out of the GQMs (“Summarische Verlustmeldungen”), showing only the date and cause of an aircraft loss for each unit. Both reports do not always correspond exactly, as they were filed at different times by different people according to the information available to them at the time of writing. But they can give you a quite useable hint, what did happen.

The “Summarische Verlustmeldungen” for II./SG 1 and I/SG 4 show
14 Fw 190 total losses due to enemy fighters and 2 to AAA in October 1944 . No MIA and only one damaged by AAA. Another 6 were lost and also 6 damaged without enemy action. That makes a loss of 17 a/c due to enemy action (16 total and one to repair).

The Flugzeugbewegungsmeldungen for October 1944 show a loss of 17 a/c due to enemy action and 7 without enemy action.

Even allowing for some minor gaps in the German reports, looks like the Germans lost not more than perhaps 20 Fw 190 in October 1944 with II/SG 1 and I/SG 4.

Carl