German 262's shot down

bobbysocks said:

are you including the mid air collisions? IIRC there were 2 or 3 of those between 262s and 51s. i know of 1 for sure but thought i read of a couple others. would award a plane to both sides??

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drgondog said:

Cobber - in the winter/spring 1945 the collapse of terrritory by the Allies had one serious 'unintended' consequence. The withdrawal from airfields into a much more concentrated area brought a much higher concentration of 20mm flak to airfields like Letnany, Straubing, Oberpfhaffenhofen, Lechfeld, etc. The first three weeks of April 1945 strafing losses far exceeded the prior 5 months of strafing losses combined for 8th AF FC. For my father's group - which had the highest number of strafing credits for any fighter Group during WWII, you have to go back to August 1944, during heavy CAS in support of the breakout, to exceed April 1945.

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Erich said:

Bill if you are talking about Fla 2cm and 3.7cm from 262 A/F's in 45 then it would be the RAF tackling KG 51 at it's bases of Rheine and Hopsten and JG 7 with the US and Soviets at Brandenburg-Briest / Brandis, later at Prague-Rusin and Saatz. you mention the other A/F's which were piston engine A/F's. As I mentioned in earlier post(s) JG 7 had the necessary Fla hidden within the trees and man made support towers, KG 51 and 54 did not quite have the heavier Fla emplacements nor the few recon units and experimental/factory defense units.

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