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Originally Posted by krichter33
I was wondering if anyone had any info on the top Mosquito hunters in the Luftwaffe.
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err...there weren't any.
And 'hunting' is a big word for an aircraft the Luftwaffe couldn't shoot down...let's call it 'chasing' as per the chapter heading in the JG 300 history. Aside from the odd claim from the 'regular' Jagdgeschwader (JG1 JG26 etc..) the following units on the German side were primarily devoted to Mosquito and/or fast twin 'chasing'. (PR Lightnings..)
JGr25 & JGr50..four months over the summer of 1943.. so unsuccessful, their initial anti- Mosquito role was modified..brought together some of the Jagdwaffe's leading aces, flew GM boosted 109s..
NJGr 10 from Jan 1944..flew Neptun radar equipped 190s. 1./NJGr 10 was to test new a/c as well as radar/radio systems and 1. Staffel was equipped with and without radar Fw 190's. Little success was acheived in the Fw 190 against the Mossie so by summers end the Bf 109G-6/AS was incorporated into the unit and the Fw 190A-8 was phased out totally. The unit went on to hunt RAF 4-mots as well as Mosquitos. 4./NJGr 10 on the coast with Fw 190's couldn't score at all..
III./JG 300 and then the enlarged 10./JG 300 during late summer & autumn of 1944..10.(N)/JG 300 had 18 a/c on strength (not 25 as per Holms's site). Two Staffelkapitäne. It was established as a specialist Moskito-jagd unit only although the unit was ordered on a number of day sorties against US heavy bombers. Became II./NJG 11 late November 44. Incorporated into NJGr 10..boosted 109s. Full story of 10. (N)/JG 300 in the JG 300 history by Lorant/Goyat...
the He 219 equipped I./NJG1...Mossie 'chasing' was not their main task but they were pretty much the only unit claiming Mosquitos through the summer of 1944. See Hinchcliffe's 'The other Battle'; claims in the year between April 43 & May 44 by German Nachtjagd pilots amounted to just SEVEN Mosquitoes shot down..which includes two Mossie claims by Fw Rauer of 1./NJG 1 on the night of 24/25 May 44, the only occasion, Hinchcliffe says, a German fighter pilot claimed more than one Mosquito in a single night..(that were presumably credited..) although Mitterdorfer in 10.(N)/JG 300 'claimed' two in one night September 44 in his Bf 109G-6/AS .
not forgetting the jets of 10./NJG 11 from February 45, the single-engine fighters of the Ergänzungs Nachtjagdgruppe from April 44..and EJG 2 from November 44...
www.ww2.dk/air/njagd/enjgr.html