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Stab I./SG 2, Csar or Raab, Hungary, winter 1944/1945

Original camouflage in the colors RLM 74 and

75 was overpainted with washable white winter paint on the aircraft. Focke-Wulf 190s of the

Stab I. Gruppe SG 2 had blue numbers in the fuselage markings during this period. The I./SG

2 was deployed in Hungary until March 1945. Hptm.

Herbert Bauer, the Austrian native from Innsbruck

held the command of the unit from November 1944

until the end of the war. From the beginning of 1941

he flew Stukas with I./St.G. 2 "Immelmann" (later

I./SG 2). From June 1943 to May 1944, he was commander of the 3rd Staffel. Prior to rearming of the

unit with Fw 190F during May 1944, he was given

the task of commanding operational training unit

II./SG 103 in France. During the war, he conducted

1071 combat flights, 70 of them with Fw 190. He destroyed 51 tanks, two armored trains and achieved

a direct hit of the battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya. He was awarded 11 aerial victories as well

(one with Ju 87), while another 12 were not confirmed. Bauer was awarded the Knight's Cross with

an Oak leaves.

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