Sonderstaffel Einhorn

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Stig Jarlevik

Thanks Nick

I guess, the true Einhorn relation with 13./KG 200. Somehow Einhorn seems to have been a unit within a unit.

However I need to bring up that Mikael Holm claims that 2./NSGr 8 was formed from 1./SG 5 and NOT 4./SG 5. The latter unit was re-designated 1./SG 5 instead. Rosch states the same thing.

What is your source for stating 4./SG 5 becoming 2./NSGr 8?

Cheers
Stig

On the first point, the reorganisation table of 6 November says of 13./KG 200:

"(Hitherto 2. St. II./200) Einhornstaffel, Fw 190 (BT.), (Anti-shipping), Villafranca"

Later strength and serviceability data suggest that there was perhaps an operational element of Einhorn and a rear detachment.

My source for 4./SG 5's redesignation is a document in Bundesarchiv Freiburg RL2 III/59 and I should have given the effective date as 8 May 1944, not June.

This was just a note I took while I was there in 1989 - I was supposed to be concentrating on Italy, not Finland but that just struck me as interesting. I don't know what Mikael Holm's source was, or Barry Rosch's but maybe his bibliography gives a clue?