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Re: Oberleutnant Korn of FAGr 5: Arado Ar 234 question
I have some poor scans of Korn's Flugbuch, pages 24 and 27 although pg 27 is very unclear.
Page 24 has 11 entries with the Ar 234, the first flight nr 1570, a Platzflug with 140326 at Alt Lonnewitz, the Arado assembly plant, on 8th November?. This airframe to KG 76 on 22/11/44.
Pg 27, 20 flights, probably Jan 45 as can make out record for (140)495 which is noted as first flew 20/1/45.
By extrapolation, assuming 20 records per page would give 71 flights to end Jan at average 20 minutes equates to 24 hrs flight time on type. So 50 hrs at end of hostilities could be correct.
Also noted is transfer of 140608 from Rechlin to Lubeck Blankensee by Korn on 19/4/45 as a replacement for KG 76 losses. This airframe ended up captured at Grove, Denmark in May 45 but I have no notes regarding this transfer.
1./FAGr 5 did operate Ar 234's from Stavanger/Sola from Feb 45 but Korn was not part of this deployment to Norway.
Jan Horn has no record of Korn in any of his books regarding the Ar 234 Units so I think it reasonable to conclude that he did not fly the type operationally.
Regards, Chris Yates
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