Major Karl-Heinz Kamp (III/JG 300) loss.

[Adriano Baumgartner]

Good morning to all members!

I am looking for details about the dismise of former ZG 26 and Night Fighter ace, Major Karl-Heinz Kamp, Gruppenkommandeur of III/JG 300 on the 31st December 1944.

Kracker Archives do have him shot down aboard Bf 109G-10 Werk # 491253 (or 233) "Black << + I"

Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries
Section G-K Version: 01 April 2012. By: Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey

The above PDF file do say that he was shot down aboard a Junkers JU 88 G-10 (a rare bird):
KAMP, Hans-Karl. (DOB: 09.01.18). (DKG). 06.40 in 3./ZG 76. 06/07.09.41 Oblt., 8./NJG 1.
01.05.42 Oblt., appt Staka 7./NJG 4 (to 23.06.43). 01.04.43 in NJG 4, promo to Hptm. 23.06.43 Hptm.,
appt Kdr. III./NJG 4 (to 06.12.44). 25.06.43 Hptm., awarded the Ehrenpokal. 01.08.44 promo to Maj.
01.10.44 Hptm.?, awarded DKG, NJG (unspecified). 07.12.44 Maj., appt Kdr. III./JG 300 (to 31.12.44,
KIA – in Ju 88 G-10 shot down N of Hamburg by a P-51). Buried at Hannover–Seelhorst. (23 victories).
1-DO WE HAVE A POSITIVE CLAIM FROM THE USAAF FOR THIS LOSS (NORTH OF HAMBURG)? I AM LOOKING TO MATCH THE AMERICAN PILOT WHO CLAIMED HIM...
2- AM ALMOST SURE HE WAS CLAIMED ABOARD THE BF 109 G-10 QUOTED, BUT WHICH HISTORIAN IS RIGHT ABOUT THE AIRCRAFT HE WAS FLYING?
3- BEING A PILOT CREDITED WITH 23 CLAIMS..WHY WAS HE TRANSFERRED TO DAY-FIGHTERS, BY DECEMBER 1944? THIS SEEMS STRANGE...REALLY...THERE ARE OTHER CASES...BUT ANYONE HAS AN IDEA?

Yours, Adriano Silva Baumgartner