Note for Hristo

[funked]

John Weal's "Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Aces of the Western Front" has a color profile of an Fw 190A-4 of Gerhard Schöpfel, Geschwaderkommodore JG 4.
The date is "circa June 1944".

Such drawings and captions are often products of Weal's overactive imagination.  

But I thought you'd like to know that there exists at least one piece of evidence that an early 190A was still flying in the last year of the war.

[Hristo]

Thanks, Funked.

Still, wasn't Gerhard Schöpfel Kommodore of JG 2, not JG 4 ? Typo ?

At least not all of them flew the coffin like A-8. Just kidding, sorry  . IMO, A-8 is a better plane than A-5, and belongs to 1944.

[funked]

Schöpfel was the founding Geschwaderkommodore of JG 4.  Apparently he flew this plane during the period that JG 4 was being formed.  So maybe he was using it for training or administrative duties rather than combat.

[Nath-BDP]

Schöpfel became kommodore of JG 26 in November of 41 when Ernst Udet killed himself and Galland became Genral de jagfleiger replacing Molders who died en route to Udet's funeral.

Schöpfel never was in JG 2.


[This message has been edited by Nath-BDP (edited 09-06-2000).]