Arado Ar234 at Neubiberg?

[ianatheling]

Thanks Roland

As far as I am aware 1.(F)/100 did not have any direct links with Kommando Sperling. I believe that Kommando Sperling joined/trained 1.(F)/123, while it was intended that 1.(F)/100 should be aided by Eric Sommer's Kommando Hecht.

Given that T9+GH was the aircraft of Horst Götz I think that it is unlikely that it would have found its way to 1.(F)./100.

[RolandF]

As far as I am aware 1.(F)/100 did not have any direct links with Kommando Sperling.

My information comes from here:

http://www.ww2.dk/air/recon/aufkl100.htm

In fact, everything I´ve read about the 1944/45 activities of the T9 unit seems to be contradictory the more it´s coming to war´s end.

Concerning the airfields well-hidden deep in the Austrian Alps I´d like to quote the airfield near St.Leonhard/Pitztal situated in a small valley in the middle of nowhere. Ba 349 units arrived here in May ´45. Saalbach is situated in a narrow secondary valley, too (I know it well from skiing) and seems strange to me providing sufficient airstrip length for a jet. I remember an information about additional 1.(F)/100 activities from an airfield between Linz and Passau in Lower Austria.

Saalbach is not far from Zell am See with an airfield situated in a wide valley. I doubt Saalbach as base for a jet unit.

Regards

Roland

[ianatheling]

Hi Nick

An interesting comment regarding Saalbach. I had also wondered if it was likely that a suitable runway would be found in the middle of the Alps. I have though found reference to III./JG 27 disbanding at the same location on the 3rd May (http://www.luftwaffe.cz/clade.html), although it could also be suggested that they did so without aircraft. Saalbach also appears to have been used as a (non-flying?) base for the 7./Jagddivision.

[ianatheling]

Hi Roland

I think that such contradictions are unfortunately common, especially in this period. Part of this is however a modern error. There are a couple of probably related mix ups on the T9+ related units on the Michael Holm website , most notably the info on Sonderkommando Hecht/Sommer.
The Austrian airfield you refer to is Hörsching, south west of Linz (Upper Austria) and 1.(F)/100 were operational there.

[ianatheling]

Hi Martin

Thank you for this information (even though I seem to have been ignored in the last post!). Unless anyone else has unexpected info on the München-Riem Ar234B, I think that it may be safe to suggest that 1(F)./100 was its unit.
Good luck on the book.
Ian

[RolandF]

To complete this I´d like to add information about two photographs on p.189 in Smith + Creek: Arado 234 Blitz (Monogram 1992), depicting the "wrecked fuselage of an Ar 234 photographed in Southern Germany...thought to have belonged to...1.(F)/100." The code is + (white) HH, without the Geschwader code T5 being applied.
Size and position of the letters are identical to München-Riem´s Ar 234 but without the white portions being obscured.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Roland