Captured Fw-190A-8 9./JG-301

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While looking through my old issues of the Luftwaffe Verband. I came across the list of German aircraft flown or captured by the USSR (LW Verband 1-99).

On this list is Fw-190A-8, WN 682011, 9./JG-301,captured at Rakitnoye on October 10,1944, flown by Ofw. K. Petersen.
A net search find the plane being tested by the Soviets against other Russian fighters.
The book "Jadgeschwader 301/302" by Reschke has Fw-190A-8, WN 682011, flown by Ofw. Karl Petersen MIA.

So, did Herr Petersen desert or was it an accident? The book by Willi Rescke has the following:
"Ofw. Karl Petersen of the 9th Staffel and Uffz Walter Kugler of the 12th Staffel were delayed for a day at Alperstedt due to mechanical problems. Both departed the next day but on reaching the Harz Petersen inexplicably turned away to the west. He failed to arrive at Stendal."