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Re: AR234
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130007 Ar 234 V7 (Prototype B series engine development, Skid undercarriage, 2 x Jumo 003 B-0 production engines) GK+IX ff by Plt. Walter Kröger on 22.06.1944 - Fitted out with recce cameras for special flights on the Western Front - T9+MH 1.(V)/Ob.d.L (Oranienburg) July 1944 - Flown to Jovincourt/Reims by Oblt. Erich Sommer 25.07.1944 (but there it waited seven days for its takeoff trolley to arrive) - Flown by Oblt. Erich Sommer on the worlds first operational Turbojet Recce flight over the Allied forces in Normandy invasion area on 02.08.1944 - Chievres 24.08.1944 - Volkel - Rhine 09.1944 - Unit renamed Kdo Götz - Kdo Hecht - Flown to Berlin/Oranienburg f. repair 09.11.1944 (but withdrawn from service)
140112 Ar 234 B-012 / S12 GM+BL ff ...08.1944 (The first production machine to be fitted with two Rb 50/30 recce cameras) tfd 23.08.1944 Kdo Sperling - T9+GH 22.09.1944 - (Flown by Oblt. Horst Götz) - 1.(V)/Ob.d.L (06.11.1944) Kdo Sperling (Oblt. Horst Götz)
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