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Old 5th April 2013, 13:36
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Re: I.(F)/120 loss 7-02-1945

Teilkommando 1.(F)/120, later known as Halbstaffel 1.(F)/120 was a entire unit formed “discreetly” at Trondheim/Værnes in spring 1944. First operating on Ju 88 D-1 4N+FH 29.05.1944 as "Teilkommando 1.(F)/22". At first it used (7) aircraft ( 6 D-1 + 1 A-4 ) and crews taken from 1.(F)/22 (when it left for Italy) but also crew and aircraft from 1.(F)/124 (Kirkenes). Later aircraft and crews of the Stabstaffel/KG 26, Westa 5, ZG 76, 1.(F)/33, 1.(F)/122, Westa 26 and Sonderstaffel des RLM operated with the unit. The aircraft were flown with “old” codes (the other units codes) as officially it did not exist in Berlin. In 1945 it even operated three Fw 200 Condors but few details are known. The unit was operating against Allied convoys and shipping in the central Norwegian Sea, west to Iceland, north-west to Jan Mayen and north-east to the areas south-west of Spitzbergen and Bear Island.

Researcher Rune Rautio has more details on this via link below - but notice the "Ju 88 A-6/U" likely really was D-1 0881285 4N+CH with FuG 200 "Hohentweil" Radar (i.e. Ju 88 D-1 "Rustgrad D")

http://www.ahs.no/forumv3/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=144

Best regards
Ed
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