NJG crew member

[Horst Weber]

Good evening !

My late basic-school teacher told us pupils, when he was in the equivalent mood, about his WW II memories. This was in the late sixties and the early seventies of last century. He passed away in 1974.

He told then, that he was a crew member of a "Nachtjäger"-crew and spoke about his fragmentary memories of this time.

I'm now a bit curious, to find out something of his NJG or if all was possible only a hoax.

The facts:
- His name is Karl Heinz, *February 7th, 1920
- He lived pre-war at Orenhofen, Kreis Bitburg, Germany

My memories :
- He told us, that he was a "Nachtjäger"-crew, but not a pilot.
- In a case of danger on the mission, he was able to move armour-plates in the a/c to protect his crew-position variable
- The Nachtjäger-crews were provided wih carot-containing meals as often as possible, to keep their ability of night-observation
- They also had to eat raw-carot rations
- By my (dark) memories, he spoke more about a Bf-110 as his a/c type
- He must have had a considerable geographical knowledge about the landscape of the German "Ostfriesischen Inseln". By my memories, this was always in his (scholar) geography a big theme and in my memory, this geo-area played a certain role in his Nachtjäger-time.
- He never told us about a crash, a wounding or an incident to be into an NVLM. All other is speculation.

Is anyone of you able to give me more information, in particular of his unit ?

Thank you very much !

Horst Weber

[Delmenhorst]

Karl Heinz ?? Do you have a last name ??

[Horst Weber]

Yes, my apology of description,

This men' s first-name is Karl

and his surname is Heinz



Horst Weber

[Horst Weber]

No result ?

Who else could I ask ?

Horst Weber

[Chris Goss]

Ah the old carrot story for night fighter crews!

[Horst Weber]

Originally Posted by Chris Goss

Ah the old carrot story for night fighter crews!

Chris, thanks,

but he really told it.

I like to find out if this man was a real flying Nachtjäger crew-member as he said.

Unfortunately, I have no more data about his military career as he told us and I posted.

In no way, I'll try to blame him or his family. It's just interest.

Horst Weber

[hanshauprich]

Moien Horst,
what about the WASt? I know also an former Nightfighter Pilot, was from Bitburg (!!), he told me the same about the carrots!! And he told me another strange story: He and his crew get by the end of the war (April 45) the order flying their Bf 110 from Vienna to the Isle of Rhodos and deliver same secret papers. (Sounds more then an mission for KG 200)! He told me also that this was an "No Return" flight! When the british landed at Rhodos, they became PoW and spent a year or so in Aqypt!
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