HISTORY

fly sorties now. We were airborne most nights in the sector

Bamberg-Bayreuth, flying strafing sorties against American

road convoys pressing into southern Germany. From 16 April

1945 we flew from Penzing. I flew a final sortie on the evening

of 26 April 1945, airborne in Müller‘s Bf 109 K-4 marked with

a double chevron. As I recall he had just returned his thirtieth

night victory in this machine. Only four of us were up on this

last night, attacking enemy road traffic around the Danube. We

landed at Holzkirchen on 27 April where we were taken captive

by the Americans – the four of us - Lt. Hermann Stitz, Fw. Fritz

Gniffke, Uffz. Eugen Künstler and myself – were the last wilde

Sau pilots of the Luftwaffe..”

Caption for ‘Red 2’

Bf 109 G-6/AS “Red 2” (WNr. unknown) flown by Friedrich-Karl

Müller with 1./NJGr 10 during July and August 1944. As a Moskito

hunter the lower surfaces are in black while the Kennziffer ‘2’

is confirmed as red from Müller’s log book. The aircraft features

a red fuselage band (just visible in one image), pointing to this as

being an ex-JG 300 aircraft, probably built by Mtt. Regensburg

judging by the camouflage and stencil below the canopy. Note

the absence of head armour to save some additional weight,

a feature of Bf 109s selected for the specialised role of hunting

RAF Mosquitoes. While not visible in any of the photos of ‘Red

2’, all of Müller’s aircraft can be assumed to have sported

a rudder scoreboard, from his Fw 190 ‘Green 3’ to his final K-4..

Hptm. Friedrich-Karl Müller,

CO of 1./NJGr. 10, Werneuchen,

Germany, July 1944

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