Fw. Hans Richter I/NAGr.1 24-12-1944

[Brian Bines]

Thanks for posting the photo,

Regards

Brian Bines

[Melvin Brownless]

Hi Brian,

From my collection, Schuster & Kohla whilst serving with 4./(F)123, France 1944.

Regards

Melvin

www.aircrewremembrancesociety.com

[Brian Bines]

Hi Melvin,

Thanks very much for posting the photos,

Best Wishes

Brian Bines

[Melvin Brownless]

No problem Brian, you have helped me no end in the past, its the least I could do, the photos came from the album of Herbert Blochberger.

Regards

Melvin

www.aircrewremembrancesociety.com

[yogybär]

Originally Posted by Larry deZeng

February 1945: began receiving Messerschmitt Me 262 jets at Herzogenaurach.

Where in Herzogenaurach was an airfield usable for Me 262's?

[Larry deZeng]

Herzogenaurach
Dimensions: approx 750 x 1,400 meters.
Runway: grass surface with two camouflaged concrete starting platforms at the NW and SW corners of the landing area. The field had a beam approach system, perimeter lighting and obstruction lighting.
[above information as of 17 November 1944]

Answer: nowhere. To the best of my knowledge, Herzogenaurach was not intended to be an operational airfield for the Me 262. That entry came from an ULTRA signal, I believe, and appears to have been mis-translated. It probably means, "1./NAGr. 1 at Herzogenaurach began receiving Me 262s in February 1945." As you know, a unit could be billeted at almost any airfield and the pilots ordered to report to Lechfeld, Neuburg/Donau, u.a., for Me 262 conversion training. On completion of the re-equipping and conversion process, the unit would be transferred to an operational airfield with a runway capable to handling the Me 262. There were quite a number of airfields in Germany that were having their runways extended and hardened from fall 1944 through spring 1945 so they could handle the jet aircraft.

L.

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Larry deZeng

To the best of my knowledge, Herzogenaurach was not intended to be an operational airfield for the Me 262. That entry came from an ULTRA signal, I believe, and appears to have been mis-translated. It probably means, "1./NAGr. 1 at Herzogenaurach began receiving Me 262s in February 1945."

Ultra makes pretty good sense overall on 1./NAG 1 and the Me 262. It does look like the Staffel (and definitely the ground echelon) was in Herzogenaurach but the jets were not. They had not been allocated their Me 262s as late as 15 March 1945, although the inference is that they are about to get them.

[RT]

Schuster hs been already wounded on sept.44

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Schuster was born i. Leipzig on 29.Dec. 1920

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