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Info Eduard - November 2010
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HISTORY
As a result, JV 44 organized a protective flight using
Fw 190 Ds under the leadership of Heino Sachsenberg.
Sachsenberg was a logical choice. He certainly didn’t
lack bold nerve, and he had several year-long experience
fighting fast flying enemy fighters at low altitudes. His pilots
also had to contend with another danger - friendly ground
fire. According to the memoirs of Johannes Steinhoff,
a good chunk of crews of the anti-aircraft artillery at Riem
were women. There was no real effort to distinguish
between friendly and enemy aircraft. The Me 262 did
enjoy relative security in this respect due to its distinctive
silhouette and engine noise. Perhaps this was why the
bottom surfaces of the Doras of JV 44 were painted red
on the bottom, with white stripes. Another reason could
have been the incident with Heinz Ewald on March 1
st, which Sachsenberg remembered very well. Another
result (or perhaps cause) of this coloring may have been
the radio call code of this flight – the Papagei (‘Parrot’
Squadron). Among other codes that this brightly colored
squadron reportedly used were ‘Elefant’ and ‘Würger
(a nickname for the Fw 190, which could be translated
as ‘Killer’) The duties of Sachsenberg’s protective flight
were largely improvised. His pilots couldn’t communicate
directly with the pilots of the jet powered Me 262s. They
simply took off and circled the field at low altitudes until
the Me 262s were safely on their way. Usually, there were
two Fw 190 Ds in the air, but, as an exception, Riem was
circled by four.
Problems began when the jets returned. For them to
set down as quickly as possible, there must not have
been anything in their way. The Focke-Wulfs always
had to land before the Messerschmitts. This left their
colleagues in the Me 262s to land without the protective
cover and dependant on their skill, luck and field AAA.
Galland himself was victim of this practice. On April 26,
1945, he crashed at Riem with injuries and a damaged
aircraft. There was no one in the air to cover him.
Sachsenberg’s -190s were covered in their shelters at
the northern edge of the air field, and his pilots weren’t too
close to the remaining JV 44 pilots. Up to now, there are
five Fw 190 Ds that served with JV 44, and most of them
wore a black and white square symbol with a red ring
and a specific slogan. The inscription was very personal
and the authorship was probably tied to a specific pilot.
Almost certainly, this is the case with Red ‘3’, which was
assigned to Hptm. Waldemar Wübke (15 victories and
a veteran of JG 54). Apparently, this notorious prankster
and Sachsenberg understood each other quite well,
and on his aircraft he reiterated the inscription from his
aircraft as far back as 1940. Another two pilots who
flew with Sachsenberg (and were confirmed by JV 44
documentation) were Lt. Karl H. Hoffmann and Hptm.
Klaus Faber (2 victories and a JG 27 veteran). According
to his own testimony, Fw. Bodo Dirschauer also flew with
this unit.
The protection flight over Riem engaged American
pilots only a few times, but details are nevertheless
lacking. During the evacuation of the base, two Focke-
Wulfs were left behind, the remainder were to move to
Ainring at Salzburg. It appears that only two made it,
and the third was found at the end of the war at Bad
Aibling. JV 44 always reported having five Fw 190 D-9s
and Fw 190D-11s, and it cannot be discounted that other
machines were accepted. Klaus Faber recounted after
the war ferrying Red ‘13’ from Ainring to Bad Aibling.
On the way, he met a group of Mustangs and
Thunderbolts, and reportedly shot down one, maybe two
of them. He was also to deliver a supply of whiskey back
to Ainring.
Capitulation found JV 44 at Ainring, at Salzburg and
Innsbruck. Her members found their way home fairly
quickly. Bodo Dirschauer reports that in the last days of
the war, Sachsenberg was again wounded, this time in an
exchange of fire with American soldiers.
Heinz Sachsenberg recovered relatively quickly
and settled at Wiesbaden. In the fall of 1945, he, Willi
Batz and Hans-Ulrich Rudel took part in the marriage
ceremony of Walter Wolfrum (veteran of II./JG 52 with
137 kills). Sachsenberg dazzled the happy couple with
his rhymes and Rudel surprised all with his dance steps
(he wore wooded prosthesis on both feet).
Me 262 A-1a W.Nr. 111745, Jagdverband 44,
München-Riem, April 1945
(Profile: Jan Zdiarský)
Members of Sachsenberg´s protection flight in front of one of the brightly
painted Doras. From the left: Lt. Karl-Heinz Hofmann, Oblt. Klaus Faber,
Lt. Heino Sachsenberg and Hptm Waldemar Wübke.
(Jerry Crandall)
Sachsenberg's Platzschutzschwarm
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