Hi Huib,
Wow, this is going to take a couple of hours of research in my 18 rolls of Smithsonian/National Air and Space Museum’s Captured German & Japanese Air Technical Documents collection, NASM Archives Accession No. 0431, and even that will not turn up much in the way of helpful information.
However, some of your questions I can answer or attempt to answer now.
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1) Where does the information come from that Hauptmann Karl MIERISCH was the pilot of the Ar 234?
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This October 1945 Farnsborough transfer question would have been something found by my colleague, Doug. I will contact him and see if he can find the source he used.
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2) Could the entries A and B be referring to the same officer?
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Yes, that is entirely possible.
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3) If A and B are referring to the same officer, what does the posting to Abt. Qu 4/Italuft Rome entail? Could this be a posting in a technical role?
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No, Abt. Qu.4 was Flakgerät und Munition. He would have been the Abteilung-Chef of this department or office and he would have belonged to the Flak Branch of the Luftwaffe rather than to the Flieger Branch.
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4) Is there additional information available regarding the activities, roles and postings of Karl Mierisch? How did he end up in Norway?
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A full answer to this set of questions would have to come from his personnel records at BA-MA Freiburg.
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5) Could the entries A, B and C be referring to the same officer? In entry C a posting to 1.(F)/Aufkl.Gr. 22 is mentioned and that could be a qualification to fly an Ar 234 later in the war?
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Quite doubtful. I see no correlation between a Feldwebel radio operator in a Fernaufklärungs unit in summer 1941-42 and an Ar 234 pilot in 1944-45. Besides, you would have to assign a higher probability to his name being spelled wrong and his first name being incorrect than not.
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6) Could Karl Mierisch have been a Hauptmann (Ing.)?
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Yes, and that is what I will check the microfilms for.
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7) Is there any information available about Hauptmann (Ing.?) Helmut(h) Miersch?
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Other than what I may come across in the microfilm, you will probably have to contact BA-MA for his full career information.
L.