[Juha]

Hello Bela
Yes, there was very probably at least some strafing, but by whom? From Field Order 1742A (order to Fighter Groups for 12.3.45 )by the 8th AF/FC "...Groups will not repeat not strafe...”

On the other hand during the night 12/13.3.45 Korpsgruppe von Tettau, consisting 10.700 soldiers and 12.000 - 17.000 civilians, had broken from East along the Baltic coast through Soviet lines into Dievenow/Dziwnów on the Wollin island and the civilians had then continued towards Schwinemünde and after daybreak were attacked by Soviet planes .

Now, according to USAAF info Schwinemünde was under 10/10 cloud and bombing was made using H2X radars. Some fighters had orders to take photos on bomb damage but at least according to 4th FG unit history the planes ordered to do this gave up this job after descending through clouds to 500ft and still being inside clouds. Now IMHO it is difficult to say anything as absolutely sure when we talk about fighters, some US fighters may have got under clouds and strafe contrary to orders but I doubt that if that had happened it was widespread. At least some Soviet planes seemed to have strafed but they came from East or from SE (USAAF game from North) and approached at low level, US fighters were escorting the bombers, which flow above the clouds and they had to try to get down through clouds.

Juha