APPENDIX FIVE: KNOWN AIRCRAFT AND PILOTS OF SONDERSTAFFEL KAATSCH
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W.Nr.
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Type
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Location
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Remarks
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29/8
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165433
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Bf 109
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Almost certainly the aircraft reported as 175433, which crashed on 30.08.44 (there is no known Bf 109 175000 Werk Nummer series).
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160755
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Listed u/s (shot up?) evening 29 August.
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163876
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Kaatsch aircraft, taken over from Freiburg by 2./Erg.JGr. Ost, 12.10.44.
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440024
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Taken over from Frieburg by 2./Erg.JGr. Ost at the same time as the above.
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441794
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Shot down on afternoon of 29 August.
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412452
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781200
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Not a known Kaatsch machine unless 781210 was the number intended although that aircraft was due to pass to 1.(F)/121.
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NOTE: A 78120_ [number missing] was taken over by 2./Erg.JGr. Ost on 12.10.44.
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440628
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440536
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15363
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441506
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163361
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15862
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163174
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41136
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Bf 109
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St. Dizier
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Nine machines on this list are not known to have served with either 4. or 5.(F)/123. Therefore they may be JGr. 200 survivors and perhaps some which four of that Gruppe’s pilots had been sent to collect from Champfleury in mid-August.
Changes
On 27 August 1944, W.Nr. 26043 was destroyed on the ground at Dijon.
27–29 August 1944: 3 aircraft delivered (two known losses but net increase of one in strength)
29 August–6 September: 2 aircraft delivered (3 known losses but net reduction of 1 in strength)
6–7 September: 1 aircraft off total strength
7–28 September: 2 aircraft off total strength (one of these was Moschke’s “2+”)
1–2 October: 1 aircraft off total strength.
W.Nr. 412604 first appears in a return of 1 October.
W.Nr. 441019 first appears in the return of 28 September, to 2./JGr. Ost on 12 October.
Known pilots of Sonderstaffel Kaatsch
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Spies
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Oblt.
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Theodor
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5.(F)/123 (Staffelführer)
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NOTE: Although a double-s is used in some Luftwaffe signals and war graves records, the spelling »Spies« is confirmed by correspondence from family members (information from Jacques Strübi).
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Bell
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Ltn.
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Kurt
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JGr. 200
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Moschke
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Ltn.
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Heinz
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JGr. 200
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Weber
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Ltn.
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5.(F)/123 (Technischer Offizier)
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Weller
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Ofw.
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Isken
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Ofw.
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Eduard
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JGr. 200
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Kuhlmann
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Uffz.
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5.(F)/123
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Müller
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Uffz.
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5.(F)/123
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Winter
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Uffz.
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Reinhold
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NOTE: According to surviving sources, the highest number of pilots with the Staffel was 10 and this was after one man had been killed, so at least two names would appear to be missing from this list.
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