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Re: 6./JG 300
Hi Dirk
Many thanks for your reply, it's all OK. Leutnant Anton Ducke became Staffelkapitän of 3./JG 300 shortly after Oblt. Gerhard Stamp took command of I./JG 300 on November 9, 1943 at Bonn-Hangelar. I don't know the exact date. I take this opportunity to remind you that this function of Staffelkapitän was of little signifiance for night fighter missions, because the "Wilde Sau" pilots of the I./JG 300 hunted on sight and individually.
Regarding the daylight combat of January 5, 1944 - as I mentioned in volume 1 of my chronicle of JG 300 at Eagle Editions (not promotional reference, book out of print) - the combat report of 56th Fighter Group presents several similarities with accounts from the German side. The 56th FG, carrying out B-17s escort duties, had nearly 50 Thunderbolts in the air, but the attacks against german fighters were the result of just a few flights. The flight that intercepted 3./JG 300 in the region of Düren was flying at an altitude of between 7,500 and 9,000 m and estimated the Germans to be at 6,000 m. Curiously, only one of the two aircraft whose destruction the 56th FG claimed over this sector was identified as being a Bf 109.
Best Regards
Jean-Yves Lorant
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