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66. To convert
Oblt. Josef Putzkuhl and
Oblt. Gustav Francsi (both from NJG 100) to the Ar 234 for night time missions, a single seat Ar 234 B-2b W.Nr. 140608 "T9+GL" was used in daylight hours, training that would have included the use of the oversized auxiliary fuel tanks seen here.
Francsi's last flight was on 10 April 1945, the day that Fl. Pl. Oranienburg was bombed. W.Nr. 140608 was then evacuated to Rechlin-Lärz.
Oblt. Günter Korn of 1./FAGr 5, seconded as a test pilot for Arado at Alt-Lonnewitz, transferred a "T1+GL" from Rechlin-Lärz to Lübeck-Blankensee on 19 April and to Grove-Karup on 22 April, flying a
platzflug there on the 25th. It was then captured by the British at Grove.
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67. In this cropping of the previous photo, the unit letters and
werknummer are excruciatingly obscure, but the yellow in the middle of the "G" can be seen.
In his
Wings of the Luftwaffe, page 17, Lt./Cdr. (RN) Eric Brown related how he flew Ar 234 W.Nr. 140008 from Grove, via Schleswig, to Farnborough on 25 June 1945. Curiously, the British FO 1062/66, "German Aircraft ferried to Farnborough up to 3/7/45" lists it as TI+GL, W.Nr. 140008 (Steve Coates, TOCH archives, 18 Feb 2018). In his note on "Air Ministry 25", Phil Butler in
War Prizes, (Crecy, 2022), p. 103 relates:
"... AM 25 was ferried Grove-Schleswig-Farnborough on 25th June 1945 and onwards, To No. 6 MU, Brize Norton, on 30th June. The RAF serial number VK880 was allocated on 26th July... AM 25 was at the No. 6 MU in the Census of Aircraft on 21st March 1946 and was SOC there on 1st October 1948."