Ar 234 in Norway & Denmark (page 4)

Aircraft


1.(F)/5	9V+AH	140341	crashed 23.03.45	Stavanger
	9V+BH	140491	flown by Ltn. Hetz, 05.05.45	Stavanger
	9V+CH	140493		Stavanger
	9V+GH	—	flown in Burg by Hetz during training
1.(F)/33	+AH	—	operated from Wittmundhafen on 04.04.45
	8H+BH	140467		Grove
	8H+DH	140476		Grove
	8H+EH	140489		Grove
	8H+FH	140486		Grove
	8H+HH	140466		Grove
	NOTE: If 1.(F)/33 ever had an 8H+CH or an 8H+GH (as the above sequence implies) no evidence of either has surfaced so far as I know.

Sources

National Archives

AIR20/7708: Translations Vol. IX

AIR20/7891: Air activity over western front and Germany: situation reports, 1945

AIR22/503: Air Ministry W/T Intelligence Service Daily Summaries: Nos. 1948–2076, Vol. 28 (Jan–May 1945)

AIR29/931: Disarmament Servicing and Recovery Units Nos. 434, 435 & 436

AIR37/9: Immediate Interpretation Reports, Daily airfield Reports (Western Europe), 26.4.44–5.5.45

AIR40/2687: German Air Force: daily summaries of teleprints and special reports for the period 11 July 1944–6th May 1945

AIR55/227: HQ Second TAF, Disarmament Intelligence Summary No. 2 et seq.

AIR55/124 & 125: BAFO: Dissolution of the Luftwaffe Feb. 1944–Dec. 1946, Vols. I & II

HW5 file series (deciphered German signals)

HW13/21: Summaries of GAF operational activities, Aug 23 1944–May 11 1945

HW13/25: GAF Recce and bombing operations, Mar 19 1944–Mar 28 1945

HW13/156: 3A Summeries [sic] 1–45, Sept ’43 to April ’45

Imperial War Museum

RAF Air Historical Branch 6 microfilms, Reel 2

Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv Freiburg-im-Breisgau

RL 2-II/389: Morgen-, Abendmeldungen, Nachträge, Nachträge zu Schadensmeldungen (Lw. FüSt. Ic Meldewesen). Bd 5: Reichsgebiet (April 1945)

RL II/391: Abendmeldungen West, Kommandierender General der Deutschen Luftwaffe in Dänemark (via Jorn Junker)

RL2-III/67: Vortagsnotiz, 26.02.45 betr. Stand der Verlegung Kommando Götz nach Italien und Einsatzkommando 1.(F)/5 nach Norwegen

RL4-II/32: Kriegstagebuch, General der Aufklärungsflieger, 1.1.45–26.3.45

Books

J. Richard Smith & Eddie J. Creek: Arado 234 Blitz (Monogram Aviation Publications, Sturbridge Mass. 1992) ISBN 0914144510

Lawrence Paterson: Donitz’s Last Gamble, The Inshore U-Boat Campaign 1944-45 (Seaforth Publishing, 2008) ISBN 1844157148

Roger S. Gaemperle: Captured Eagles Volume 1 (Vintage Eagle Publishing, 2011) ISBN978-3-033-03007-7

Frithjof Ruud: Profiles in Norway No. 5, Arado Ar 234 B-2 (Arild Kjæraas, 2006) ISBN 8-29254-204-3

Online

Thanks to

Jan Horn who contacted me after this piece appeared and whose own work on reconnaissance Ar 234s, »Die Augen des OKW« is in progress.

Huib Ottens for additional information about the aircraft found at Stavanger.

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