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Old 24th October 2005, 17:43
Michal Michal is offline
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SG 4 March 25 1945

I am looking for any information about six or seven Fw 190F shot down on March 25 1945 over territory of Moravia. They probably belonged to SG 4. Could somebody help me?

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Old 24th October 2005, 17:57
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Re: SG 4 March 25 1945

Hello Michal,

These Fw 190s were shot down by P-51 pilots of 307th FS, 31st FG USAAF. This fighter group claimed 6-0-0 Fw 190s south of Olomouc at 12:25 hrs. One of the US pilots, 1st Lt Norman C. Skogstad distinguished himself with shooting down 4 Focke-Wulfs in this encounter.

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Old 24th October 2005, 20:17
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Re: SG 4 March 25 1945

Hallo Ota,

thanks for this info. I know it but I am interesting if somebody could confirm that planes belonged to SG 4 and if SG 4 had some losses on that day. The other "scorers" that day were:

Cpt. William J. Dillard (308th FS)
2nd/Lt Lowell W. Felt (307th FS)
1st/Lt Donald D. Vanwinkle Jr. (307th FS).

All from 31st FG.

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Old 25th October 2005, 09:02
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Re: SG 4 March 25 1945

Hello Michal,

Yes, the Focke-Wulfs were from I./SG 4 that has lost at least 6 Fw 190s on this date, 5 of them in the Prostějov area, 1 near Olomoc (all crashed confirmed by reports of local gendarmerie). Six SG 4 pilots were KIA. These were for certain: Ofw. Kurt Schlosser (Fw 190F-9 426054 white 6), Ofw. Heinrich Palluck (Fw 190F-8 5800600 white 1) and Uffz. Ernst Faustmann (Fw 190F-8 931879 white 10). The others were possibly Gefr. Ludwig Kulzer, Lt. Walter Schneider and Uffz. Ernst Metlinsky.

I should add that Capt William J. Dillard did not "score" in combat with these Fw 190, but has claimed a Bf 110 which unfortunately turned out to be a Soviet recce Petlyakov Pe-2 that crashed in the vicinity of Německý Brod (Deutsch Brod). None of the VVS crew survived this friendly-fire accident.

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Old 25th October 2005, 17:24
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Re: SG 4 March 25 1945

Díky Oto,

it helps.

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