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Standardization of Bf 109K units
Below is the short excerpt from Messerschmitt Bf 109K monography by A. Janda and A. Poruba, JaPo 1997, p. 89:
"Despite failure of standardisation itself, its plan was realised. On February 8, 1945 a plan of re-equipment with Bf 109K-4s nad K-4/R6s was attached to lists of actual equipment of the units. Besides other, Bf 109K-4s were to appear at following units: II/JG 3, IV/JG 4, III. and IV/JG 5, III/JG 6, II/JG 7, I., III. and IV/JG 51, II/JG 52, II/JG 77 and all Italian fighter units, Bf 109K-4/R6s were to be assigned to III. and IV/JG 300, I. and II/KG(J) 6 and I. and II/KG(J) 27.
This plan was modified two months later and reflected an effort for wider use of more advanced fighter types as for example Fw 190D-11/12/13s, Ta-152H-10s or He 162s, so that Bf 109s were to be replaced with another type instead of the anticipated Bf 109K-4s. Also another version appeared in the plans, the Bf 109K-6. These planes should have equipped IV/JG 3, IV/JG 4 and IV/JG 300. The Bf 109K-4s were to spread to remaining Gruppen of JG 3 and JG 4, Bf 109K-4/R6 to KG(J) 30. None of this really happened."
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Ota
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