The date of JV44's first victory?

[gunbird]

Il2 shot down by Steinhoff.In his autobiography The Final Hours - The Luftwaffe Pilots Against Goring,this is in chapter 8 "Brandenburg
February 1945",but it's obvious that JV 44 had not been established by then...

Would anyone give more info?Thanks~

[Nick Beale]

Have you tried this book?

[gunbird]

Originally Posted by Nick Beale

Have you tried this book?

I've searched in several books.

In Messerschmitt Combat Diary Me.262 by John Foreman and S. E. Harvey,the date is Feb.24...

In JV 44: The Galland Circus ,page 130,Robert Forsyth doesn't give the actual date of that battle:"A few days before the end of March..."

Later,Robert Forsyth published his Jagdverband 44 - Squadron of Experten under banner of Osprey ,in page 36,it reads:"some time in the last days of
March."

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So,I am really curious about the date.

[Chris Goss]

A recent article in Aero Journal supports Robert Forsyth's statement. Guess the actual date was lost in the chaos of the end of the war