JG26's VERY late war performance...

[George Hopp]

Well, we have Priller's and Caldwell's histories of JG 26. What have we on JG 2?

[NickM]

Guys:

Thanks, keep the info coming; unfortunately not too much has been written on JG-2; but I was speaking about the time AFTER 'Bodenplatte' to the end of the war; maybe it seemed JG26 did better than most JGs because more has been written about it;

Oh and...just so I can be clear on things: I guess I am including III/JG54;

Anyways, thank you & Keep replying.

NM

[yogybär]

Nick, sounds interesting. Can you underlay your point of view with numbers like claim/loss-rates, absolute losses or such?

[NickM]

Originally Posted by yogybär

Nick, sounds interesting. Can you underlay your point of view with numbers like claim/loss-rates, absolute losses or such?

Yogi:

No, not really--IF ONLY my reference reading material were THAT comprehensive...just from casually reading stuff like 'Win the Winter Sky' and of course The JG26 War Diary & some stuff from Mombeek & the Osprey unit histories; again it SEEMED that other units like JG1 & JG27 were constantly getting decimated or worse with only minimal success, yet in the small scale patrols & fights by I & II/JG 26, THEY seemed to be able to give allied forces a bit of a bloody nose from time to time---sure probably minimal when compared to things like FLAK & whatnot but still surprising given the time;

NM