It looks like the plane also was destroyed by the ground crews. There is an info that Lt. Wolfgang Ziese had flown two operational sorties from Stavanger in Norway before returning to the Hohn airfield at the end of war. Because of approaching of the British troops all the remaining planes were destroyed by Germans.
As memory serves there were two T9+KH planes used by the Kommando Sperling.
One was the Werk Nummer 140349 and the second one was the W.Nr. 140151 just used by Oblt. Muffey. The 140349 of the Stammkennzeichen ( individual fabric code ) NM+BW damaged in March 1945 and left on the runway at Rheine as a decoy and captured by the Allies on April 2. Earlier the aircraft belonged to the 1./Versuchsverband OKL. This is the aircraft ....
The 140151 came to the Kommando Sperling about September 1944. The Stammkennzeichen was SM+FK.
Just all I could find.
It looks like the plane also was destroyed by the ground crews. There is an info that Lt. Wolfgang Ziese had flown two operational sorties from Stavanger in Norway before returning to the Hohn airfield at the end of war. Because of approaching of the British troops all the remaining planes were destroyed by Germans.
You are right. It would be more effective. The name "winter camouflage" seems to be used by many authors of books due to the lack of a better name and the unknown purpose for applying that. Generally I have noticed that the kind of the camo was used for a few planes at the Northern Europe and the Norway where the snowfalls during the winter were quite heavy. It resulted in the white snow cover at the plane tops while the sides still were of the dark camouflage and could be easy noticed by enemy pilots flying low relatively. Therefore I believe it was the reason for the way of applying of the camo. Certainly I may be wrong. But I can't see any reason for a such made camouflage.
Ar 234B-2 Werk Nummer 140173 code F1+MT , the Stammkennzeichen BM+LM , belonged to the 9th Staffel of the III./KG76. She came to the squadron on October 26, 1944. The aircraft was the first Ar 234 to fall almost intact into Allied hands, made emergency landing on its belly at Selgersdorf ((25 km NE of Aachen) and 13km North of Düren) on February 22, 1945 following a pursuit by P-47s of the 9th Air Force. During the flight she was piloted by the Staffelkapitan of the 9th Squadron , Hptm. Josef Regler. The captured Ar 234 was ferried to the RAE in Farnborough on March 21 for the close examination. The engines were examined by Sir Frank Whittley's Power Jet Company.
Hptm. Regler survived the crash-landing and returned to German lines and the further service. On 21 March 1945 he became KIA after a mission to Antwerpen, his Ar 234 B-2, F1+ET, Werk.Nr. 140598 crashing in Osterbeck. The reason is unknown.
Ar 234B-2 Werk Nummer 140173 code F1+MT , the Stammkennzeichen BM+LM , belonged to the 9th Staffel of the III./KG76. She came to the squadron on October 26, 1944. The aircraft was the first Ar 234 to fall almost intact into Allied hands, made emergency landing on its belly at Selgersdorf ((25 km NE of Aachen) and 13km North of Düren) on February 22, 1945 following a pursuit by P-47s of the 9th Air Force. During the flight she was piloted by the Staffelkapitan of the 9th Squadron , Hptm. Josef Regler. The captured Ar 234 was ferried to the RAE in Farnborough on March 21 for the close examination. The engines were examined by Sir Frank Whittley's Power Jet Company.
Hptm. Regler survived the crash-landing and returned to German lines and the further service. On 21 March 1945 he became KIA after a mission to Antwerpen, his Ar 234 B-2, F1+ET, Werk.Nr. 140598 crashing in Osterbeck. The reason is unknown.
