Ebay pic - Hagenow airfield 1945

[ChristianK]

And another discovery - a nice photo from Hagenow after capture, depicting a wingless He 177 and a wrecked Fw 190 A:

http://www.ebay.de/itm/230726678570?...84.m1438.l2649

Hint to the location is He 111 "SG+FY" in the background. This aircraft appears in Hideki Noro's "Lo+ST" photo book, with "Hagenow" written on the image. I have no idea what kind of location the photo owner wrote on this one on ebay, maybe some slang term the soldiers used for the airfield back then. No location in the vicinity of Hagenow resembles this word.

Attached is another shot (and details), apparently from the same album, but which appeared on Tonelli's site some years ago. The Fw 190 on its back features the stenciled marking style of III./KG 200. Parts of this group later transferred to NSGr. 20, based at Hagenow. Perhaps this is one of those aircraft.

Regards,
Christian

[Marc-André Haldimann]

Toll Christian!

Many thanks for having found the place... I was really scratching my head on this one;-))

Cheers
Marc

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by ChristianK

The Fw 190 on its back features the stenciled marking style of III./KG 200. Parts of this group later transferred to NSGr. 20, based at Hagenow.
Christian

I don't think they did. 11./KG 200 operated alongside NSG 20 from January to early March 1945 but was transferred to Rhein-Main for operations against the Remagen bridgehead. Then the Staffel operated against American advances around Bad Kreuznach. In late March/early April the 9. and 10./KG 200 (brought back from Norway) joined up with the 11. Staffel and they then operated together as III./KG 200 over Northern Germany, from Lübeck-Blankensee.

NSG 20 seems to have been at Twente in Holland until late March, then Vörden, and was at Hagenow by mid-April. NSG 20 ended the war at Schleswig-Land, III./KG 200 at Leck.

The small stencilled numbers also seem to have been a characteristic of I./SKG 10, III./KG 51 and NSG 20 (successive redesignations) judging by photos in Jean-Yves Lorant's "La Luftwaffe face au Débarquement Allié" and Christain Möller's "Die Einsätze der Nachtschlachtfruppen 1, 2 und 20 an der Westfront".

It may be relevant to the photo (which is great to see) that on 26 April 1945, NSG 20 reported that Fw 190 F-8 W.Nr. 584075 was 5% damaged with a jammed undercarriage; 586600 crashed on take-off (70%); and Fw 190 G-3 W.Nr. 160372 lost a wheel on landing (85%). All these were at Hagenow.