German docs in TSAMO

[Dan History]

Originally Posted by Larry deZeng

I've never seen even a hint that this transfer was ever carried out. I think we need some more information to corroborate this one.

That's a valuable observation, Larry. In the loss records, there is no sign of any Ju 86 losses or accidents in the Crimea at this time. So they flew four Ju 86s there and then thought better of the idea?

There is also the mystery of what unit the words "die Nachtflugschule 3 von Wiener Neustadt" refer to. I thought that Blindflugschule 3 could be it, but your excellent database places it at Prag-Rusin - "BFS 3 (Jun 42 – Oct 43) then FFS B 33 (Oct 43 – Mar 45)". The unit at Wiener Neustadt was "FFS C Wiener Neustadt (Sep 39 – Jan 40), FFS C 8 (Jan 40 –Oct 43) then FFS B 8 (Oct 43 – Sep 44)". A certain "1. Behelfsnachtjagdlehrgang" was also at Wiener Neustadt for a time in autumn 1942, which I assume would have been training bomber crews to fly as auxiliary night fighters on the Eastern front. So the possibility emerges that the proposed operational deployment of Nachtflugschule 3 was some kind of joint endeavour by BFS 3 and FFS C 8, which eventually took the form of a small number of Ju 88s operating as Nachtfluglehrgang 3.

Kind regards,

Dan