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Originally Posted by Kurfürst
It was fighting through the war on the Western front against the Allies and this is probably why it is so highly rated and romanticized in Western circles - ie. JG 26 was fighting in the West because it was the best of the best, the only worthy opponent for the RAF and USAAF - this kind of thinking.
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..ie JG 26 wins the propaganda war by default....
but for the period after Bodenplatte there's only one JG worth talking about, only one JG putting numbers of aircraft in the air approaching their theoretical strength ...and that's JG 300 of course..
after all for the period you wish to consider the war in west was effectively over ...the Soviets were on the Oder by mid-end January 45 and even sortieing against USAAF bomber raids was to take a back seat to throwing everything east...