Erich
the old Sage
guess we will never know about that post may 45 outcome Bill, yes the P-80 vs the Me 262 with longer range fuel cells already being worked on. JG 300 was to be fully equipped had the war ranged longer and for what though they did not have to go far to meet us escorts whether the future P-51H or the P-80. can't even consider the meteor or the He 162 which was a dismal failure in it's own right. the TA would of been high protection for the Me 262 units, would of made air combat interesting, we can only imagine it's high alt performance which would of been great but only operating at medium to low ranges it even excelled in this reagrd, now I am not saying this was a gift-all for the Lw but it appears it was much better than the Anton and Dora at all alt.'s, but heck as we have said over a hundred times on the forums no-one will ever know.
what did occur operationally is that the Soviets had nothing they could put up with the Dora it outdid everything it battled against in the Soviet arsenal in 45. must do another mention of the very short term and suicidal dive bomber ops by II./JG 301 on the Ost front with their Doras , the crate were shot down too many times by Soviet AA proving the futility in using a higher alt a/c for something it was never intended for.......
2 Fw A-9's and 1 Dora from 6./JG 301, red 5 were lost on the 9th. Jg 300 and 301 were quite active this date, many of the op records of JG 301 have been lost to ? causes, some things were just not recorded. The Dora 9 was lost over Grieben Bill and in fact the pilot survived and actually made a forced landing in his smashed up crate, the pilot wounded. I have a pic of his mount.
what did occur operationally is that the Soviets had nothing they could put up with the Dora it outdid everything it battled against in the Soviet arsenal in 45. must do another mention of the very short term and suicidal dive bomber ops by II./JG 301 on the Ost front with their Doras , the crate were shot down too many times by Soviet AA proving the futility in using a higher alt a/c for something it was never intended for.......
2 Fw A-9's and 1 Dora from 6./JG 301, red 5 were lost on the 9th. Jg 300 and 301 were quite active this date, many of the op records of JG 301 have been lost to ? causes, some things were just not recorded. The Dora 9 was lost over Grieben Bill and in fact the pilot survived and actually made a forced landing in his smashed up crate, the pilot wounded. I have a pic of his mount.
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