Author Topic: Fw-190D-9 and the Eastern Front (Read 2404 times)

Furball · « **Reply #30 on:** October 13, 2004, 05:30:13 PM »

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Originally posted by Wotan

Does that mean the Stuka was restrcited to ferrying women about? Or was a airborne taxi?

We can get as stupid as you want.

It is quite clearly a pimp-mobile. don't you know anything?

Angus · « **Reply #31 on:** October 15, 2004, 02:19:23 PM »

Emmm...a question:
How many Doras were produced, and how many sorties did they rack up?
A rather modest proportion of the whole time of the 190 I'd guess.

Glasses · « **Reply #32 on:** October 15, 2004, 11:43:20 PM »

If I'm not mistaken there were about 1.5k Doras produced

Wurger · « **Reply #33 on:** October 22, 2004, 03:12:26 PM »

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Originally posted by Tilt
You have to be carefull with the term "Eastern front" when looking toward the last few months of the GPW.

I could find no active Doras on the Eastern front prior to February 45 when I looked for a scenario.

By March the Red Army had advanced so far that the LW were using German fields as forward bases for the air war over Prussia and Poland.

There were no D9's in the Baltic IFAIK.

There were no D9's over Czechaslovakia IFAIK.

So what we see in the dieing months of the GPW was the LW using home bases for both Eastern and Western fronts and as such ac were able to switch between them.

Hence during this period the VVS met up with most LW AC types still in service. Even 262's.

Actually I believe there were Dora's over CZ in that the Luftwaffe was 'falling back' to the Prague area at the end, and the 262 units were there for some time, and the 262 units used Dora's as airfield cap during take off and landings

Bazi