Ostpreußen, April 1945.

[leonventer]

Originally Posted by Nick Beale

Just to make things even harder, wasn’t the blown canopy also available as a retro-fit?

Yes, indeed -- it seems it was just a matter of what was available.

Below is a quote from Ernst Schröder of 5./JG 300, which appears on page 271 of Peter Rodeike's "Focke Wulf Jagdflugzeug: Fw 190 A, Fw 190 'Dora', Ta 152 H":




Schröder describes the chaotic situation at the end of the war, in which repaired A-8 airframes would be fitted with the BMW 801 TU engine (an interim replacement for the problematic BMW 801 TH that was intended for the A-9.)
Similarly, damaged old-style canopies were replaced with the new blown canopies.

A real hodge-podge for us to decipher ...

Regards,
Leon Venter