Mustangs lost over Hungary on 14 October 1944

[Alex Smart]

Hello Boris,
Many were sent westward after the war.
Many from Hungary to France to await identification, still unidentified.
see link which IIRC was sent to me by RSwank some time ago.

Index of /docrep/images/US-Non-7AD/AGRS/Cemeteries/X-Files Cross References

All for now
Alex

[Larry deZeng]

For whatever it's worth:

3./NAGr. 2
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15 July 1944: Staffel transferred from Larissa to Kraljevo/Serbia with 6 Bf 110s, 1 Bf 109 and 2 Fi 156s to support anti-partisan Operation "Draufgänger" (Daredevil) in Monternegro and Kosovo, a major effort to encircle and destroy Tito's Partisan forces.
7 September 1944: now at Zagreb-Pleso/Croatia converting to single-seat Bf 109Gs.
6 October 1944: still at Zagreb-Pleso.
22 October 1944: conversion completed, transferred to Pecsvarad/south Hungary via Vukovar/Croatia.
2 November 1944: at Pecsvarad/north-east of Pecs with 12(6) Bf 109Gs under Fliegerführer Nordbalkan. By the end of November it had turned over all of its remaining aircraft (2 Bf 110s and 4 Bf 109s) to other units and departed for Germany, possibly Bayreuth-Bindlach. From 1 July to November it had 2 combat losses and 4 non-combat losses.
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