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15. On 1 May 1945, "
Feldwebel [Willi] Kriessmann, 3.(Mitte)/Fl.Ü.G. 1, startet um 20:10 Uhr mit der Ar 234 B-2 (F1+GR; Werk-Nr. 120312) in Kaltenkirchen zum Cerlegungsflug. Er landet 12 Minuten später in Leck...", Jan Horn,
KG 76 Die Chronik ..., (2019), p. 306. It is likely that
Ltn. Werner Dreisbach of 7./KG 76 was the one who transferred W.Nr. 140312 from Leck to Stavanger-Sola on the morning of 5 May 1945. Unfortunately, I can find no photograph of it in Norway where it was given a hurried hand printed marking "USA 50" and on 3 July 1945, Colonel Harold E. Watson of the USAAF transferred it via Schleswig, Germany and Le Culot, Belgium to Melun-Villaroche, France. There the RAF roundels (there were no fin flashes) were painted out and American insignia substituted, leaving the green splinter camouflage intact. On 5 July Watson flew the Arado to Cherbourg-Querqueville where it was cocooned and placed aboard
HMS Reaper as article "27" for shipment to the USA.