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Originally Posted by Hans Mcilveen
This appears to be somewhere in Northern Italy (Campoformido?). Units in Italy that flew FW 190 in 1945 were NAGr 11, NSGr 9 and SNSt 20.
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True in way, but these were the same aircraft passed on from SNSt. 20 to NAGr. 11 and then to Stab/NSG 9.
As far as I could deduce, their last few Fw 190 A-8 went first to NAGr. 11 and then to NSG 9:
2 November 1944: Seenotstaffel 20, Udine, 4(4) Fw 190 A-8, Obltn. Langer
10 November 1944: Seenotstaffel 20, 10 (10) Fw 190 A-8
31 December 1944: Seenotstaffel 20, 6 (4) Fw 190 A-8
1 March 1945: Stab/NAGr. 11, 4 Fw 190 A-8
1 April 1945: Stab/NAGr. 11, 3 (2) Fw 190 A-8
22 April 1945: 1./NSGr. 9, Villafranca 3 (2) Fw 190 A-8 and 4 (4) Fw 190 F-8
Fw 190 A-8, W.Nr.734018, E8+BB was found as a wreck at Villafranca di Verona on 2 May 1945, as was W.Nr. 734014. Both had FuG 101 which might fit with earlier employment over the Adriatic.
A blurry photo emerged of Fw 190 +CB at Innsbruck-Hötting postwar; it had a blown canopy and the bulged cowling but whether it was an A or an F-model, who knows? Purely conjecture but I wonder if NSG 9’s three A-8s were E8+AB, BB and CB?