Wilde Sau with twin engined fighters.

[George Hopp]

Yes, you are correct about the problem with terminology, but it does not alter the fact that so few a/c flew on Tame Sow, or "pursuit", operations (as translated in the I JK diary) because of the lack of SN 2 radars.

I had posted a note earlier, which seems to have disappeared, that yes, a few SN 2s would have been available in the fall of 1943 by having Telefunken change production from the FuG 213 to the FuG 220. But, rather than carrying the huge nose antennas we are used to seeing, they would have carried wing antennas. This was the SN 2 Model 0.

I did have a listing of SN 2 production from summer of 1943, but, of course, now that I am looking for it, I cannot find it.

However, I do have a report which shows that I JK had, as of 18.2.44, the following: of its 110 Ju 88s, 17 were outfitted with SN 2; and of 234 Bf 110s, 126 were outfitted with SN 2. So, entering the spring of 1944, less than half of the a/c directly protecting the heart of Greater Germany were outfitted with SN 2. And, of the a/c so equipped, the majority were the Bf 110s which didn't have the range for extended Tame Sow operations.

Oh, and on 22.2.44, II JK declared a single night fighting unit, NJG 4. It had ca. 49 machines, of which 7 were Do 217s with Wendestein, 2 Bf 210s (sic) shadow a/c, and the rest Bf 110s. This unit had 17 SN 2 sets installed, of which 2 were being repaired.