Colourized photo of Me 262 WNr. 113368 at Innsbruck-Hötting

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Karoband

Define "interesting"!

How about …

NSG 9 aircraft which had been fighting since March 1944. NSG 9 progressed through four aircraft types (Ca. 314, CR. 42, Ju 87 D, Fw 190 F) and went from visual to radar-guided bombing. After June 1944 it represented the only Luftwaffe offensive airpower on the Italian front.

JV 44 was 4 weeks of operations and some postwar myth-making by Adolf Galland — all that "squadron of aces" nonsense when much of the personnel consisted of ordinary NCOs and some of the injured/exhausted aces weren't in operational roles (see Robert Forsyth's book).

[Karoband]

Nick,
I rose to the bait. I would say "point taken!" if we were only taking into account unit remnants at Hotting which is a very narrow frame of reference. For those of us who find the Me 262 operations of all units fascinating, even those of JV44, I will only agree to disagree.

Franck,

You were right. It is a "white 13" in Nick's photo whose top matches that of the balkenkreuz, therefore most likely from JV44.

best regards,

Jim

[ouidjat]

Originally Posted by Karoband

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Franck,

You were right. It is a "white 13" in Nick's photo whose top matches that of the balkenkreuz, therefore most likely from JV44.

best regards,

Jim

My Pleasure Jim.

Matolion,
Thanks very much for the beautiful picture you posted. Nice and useful.
Can you give us the source of it?

Regards,
Franck.

PS: How much Fw190s found/left behind at Hötting please ? Nick ?

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by ouidjat

PS: How much Fw190s found/left behind at Hötting please ? Nick ?

I wish I knew. Probably not more than about five because NSG 9 never had many and some were lost or abandoned in Italy. There were some in my book and the attached photo (E8+CB of the Stab) came up in a discussion here in 2013.

[ouidjat]

Thank you Nick.

[Revi16]

Might as well add this vid here as well. Added from another post. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7refsk