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Re: Sonderkommando Totenkopf
Hi again, Andy,
I checked my notes for Totenkopf and found these references. I'm guessing the magazine article is missing because it's more recent than I may have thought. Anyway, the Saft books covers it pretty well.
U.Saft - Das Bittere Ende der Luftwaffe: “Wilde Sau” – Sturmjäger – Rammjäger – Todesflieger – “Bienenstock” (Langenhagen, 1992), pp.155-66; H.Herrmann - Eagle’s Wings: The Autobiography of a Luftwaffe Pilot (Osceola (WI), 1991), 259-66; PRO London: DEFE 3 ULTRA signals K01349 and K01543.
The Kdr. of Totenkopf was:
Maj. Otto Köhnke (c.16 Apr 45 - 8 May 45)
The more official and more commonly used name for Totenkopf was
Sonderkommando “Bienenstock”.
They eventually had 20 aircraft and these included Si 204s and Bü 181s as well as the Störche. None of the accounts indicate where the aircraft came from, but by that date there were scads of unused aircraft laying all over the Reich. Not too difficult to cobble together 20 zoom-zooms at that late date.
HTH,
L.
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