[Karoband]

Hi Chris,

The last page of Reinert's flugbuch can be found on p. 143 of Dmitri Degtev and Dmitri Zubov's Ar 234 BLITZ [in Russian], 2018.

On 1 April 1945 Reinert made first a Platzflug at Burg in "T5+BH" 07:03 to 07:29 hrs., then he made another Platzflug in "594" 08:29 to 08:44 hrs., then a Technikflug 10:52 to 11:03 hrs. in "594" and finally a Technik-u.-T.F. Flug in "602" 11:46 to 12:20 hrs.
On 5 April, Reinert made an operational Bildflug 10:37 to 11:37 hrs from Burg in "602". Then on 7 April, two more Bildflug at 08:57 to 10:43 and 18:15 to 19:45 hrs in "602".
Finally his last flight was in "594" at 10:30 hrs. on the 13th.

Ofw. Karl Nitschke of 1.(F)/100 also flew "T5+BH", "602" and "594" at Burg. The last page of Nitschke's flugbuch can be found on p.122 of David E. Brown etal., Messerschmitt Me 262 Production & Arado Ar 234 Final Operations, 2012. Like Reinert, Nitschke made Umschulung flights in T5+BH at Burg on 1 April 14:08 to 14:25 and 15:27 to 15:44, then a Technikflug in "wn. 140602" 17:11 to 17:27 hrs and a F.T. Flug in the same aircraft 17:53 to 18:27 hrs.
His first operational Bildflug was in "wn. 140594" from Burg on 5 April 10:28 to 11:35hrs. The next Bildflug was also in "594" on 7 April 17:59 to 19:20 hrs. After three more flights Nitschke on 24 April made a (Au) Feindflug in T5+BH (presumably 140611 taking off from Lechfeld at 16:05 and landing at München-Riem at 16:45 hrs. This accords with Nick's account in Ghostbombers that Task A was flown from Riem on the 25th.

I hope this helps.

Jim