Ebay pic - Hagenow airfield 1945

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by ChristianK

The Fw 190 on its back features the stenciled marking style of III./KG 200. Parts of this group later transferred to NSGr. 20, based at Hagenow.
Christian

I don't think they did. 11./KG 200 operated alongside NSG 20 from January to early March 1945 but was transferred to Rhein-Main for operations against the Remagen bridgehead. Then the Staffel operated against American advances around Bad Kreuznach. In late March/early April the 9. and 10./KG 200 (brought back from Norway) joined up with the 11. Staffel and they then operated together as III./KG 200 over Northern Germany, from Lübeck-Blankensee.

NSG 20 seems to have been at Twente in Holland until late March, then Vörden, and was at Hagenow by mid-April. NSG 20 ended the war at Schleswig-Land, III./KG 200 at Leck.

The small stencilled numbers also seem to have been a characteristic of I./SKG 10, III./KG 51 and NSG 20 (successive redesignations) judging by photos in Jean-Yves Lorant's "La Luftwaffe face au Débarquement Allié" and Christain Möller's "Die Einsätze der Nachtschlachtfruppen 1, 2 und 20 an der Westfront".

It may be relevant to the photo (which is great to see) that on 26 April 1945, NSG 20 reported that Fw 190 F-8 W.Nr. 584075 was 5% damaged with a jammed undercarriage; 586600 crashed on take-off (70%); and Fw 190 G-3 W.Nr. 160372 lost a wheel on landing (85%). All these were at Hagenow.