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NJG2

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NJG2

[UP] - LG2 - NJG1 - NJG2 - NJG4 - NJG6 - NJG11 - NJG100 - SG2 - SG77 - SKG10 - ZG1 - ZG52 - ZG76

Country : Germany

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Sicilian Vespers by Iain Wyllie.
2 editions.
One edition features an additional signature.
£18.00 - £85.00

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Sicilian Vespers by Iain Wyllie.

Leutnant Heinz Rokker of NJG 2 based at castelvetrand in Sicily in June 1943 warms up the engines of his JU- 88C-6 prior to taking off on another sortie. his prize wartime total was 64 kills.

I./NJG 2's initial role was unlike the other units of the Luftwaffe night fighter arm; as a Fernnachtjagd Gruppe they were tasked with long-range intruder missions over the UK, disrupting night flying training and harassing the returning Royal Air Force (RAF) bombers over their own airfields. Luftflotte 3's radio intercepts of Bomber Command's transmissions helped pinpoint the operational airfields in Eastern England. I./NJG 2 aircraft could then scramble to be over the airfields at the predicted times of the bomber's return. The technique employed was to mix with the returning bombers, orbit the bases, and either shoot down targets that presented themselves or drop 50 kilograms (110 lb) bombs across the runways Based at Gilze-Rijen in the Netherlands, operations commenced using just 7 JU 88 C-1 night fighters. Although most missions were carried out using the Junkers Ju 88C-1 and C-2, a few Dornier Do 215B-5 fighter conversions were trialled in the spring of 1941. The offensive over the UK yielded promising results- some 143 victory claims were made, and over 90 RAF aircraft were indeed lost between October 1940 and the start of 1942. There was also the additional disruption to RAF operations and the psychological effects on the RAF crews By October 1941 however night intruder sorties were curtailed, due to the inadequate number of aircraft available (I Gruppe never had more than 20 JU 88s operational) and the High Command's perceived lack of results; it was thought shooting down RAF bombers over the German homeland had a far greater morale effect than over the UK Among the most successful of the unit's pilots was Ufz. Heinz Strüning, who flew 66 intruder missions over England. He recorded his first night victory on 23/24 November - a RAF Vickers Wellington bomber and by the end of 1941 he had 9 victories. Leutnant Alfons Koster had, by October 1941, some 11 intruder victories. Lt. Hans Hahn was credited with 12 victories, all over England.[2] He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross In July 1941, but was killed in action in October 1941, colliding with an RAF Airspeed Oxford trainer he was trying to shoot down. II./NJG 2 flew more conventional operations at this time, based at Leeuwarden on the Dutch coast. In November 1941 4./NJG 2 moved to Catania, and would remain there until February 1942, when it transferred back to Leeuwarden and joined the rest of II./NJG 2. In November 1941 2./NJG 2 moved to Benghazi as part of Fliegerführer Afrika, and returned to Catania later in the month. The first 'kill' was claimed on 13 December, Obfw Sommer downing a Bristol Beaufighter over Crete. On 19 November 1941 the unit escorted Ju 88 bombers raiding shipping off Malta, Lt. Laufs shooting down a Hurricane of No. 126 Squadron. Early in 1942 both 2. and 3./NJG 2 was based at Benghazi until March 1942. Various demands for night cover meant from April onwards I./NJG 2 was scattered over the Mediterranean, with detachments based at Benina, Berca, Derna, Benghazi, El Quasaba and Crete. On 1 October, 7./NJG 2 was redesignated as 4./NJG 2. The unit's Leutnant Heinz Strüning was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 29 October for 24 victories. One of this unit's Ju 88G-1 night fighters, from the 7th Staffel, with Geschwaderkennung style aircraft code 4R+UR, was landed at RAF Woodbridge by mistake on July 13, 1944, giving the Allies their first chance to examine a working example of the VHF-band Lichtenstein SN-2 airborne intercept radar, and Flensburg radar detector gear. This event resulted in a longer-wavelength deployment of Window to jam the SN-2 gear, and general removal of the Monica tail warning radar from all RAF Bomber Command heavy bombers By the end of the year NJG 2 were covering the night defence of the industrial Ruhr area, flying from Düsseldorf, Kassel, Gütersloh, and Köln. In the final weeks of the conflict, the unit began receiving the night fighter variant of the Junkers Ju 388 - thus making NJG 2 the first and only Luftwaffe detachment to use the nachtjager variant operationally. It is likely these machines were 388J-0 pre-production prototypes, as the 388 programme was cancelled before manufacture of the J-1 production series had begun. Given the haphazard and incomplete conditions of training in those final days of war, and the almost total depletion of aviation fuel stocks throughout what remained of the Reich, it is doubtful whether more than a handful of combat missions were flown by this new type. NJG 2 claimed approximately 800 air victories during its period of operations.

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A list of all Aces from our database who are known to have flown with this squadron. A profile page is available by clicking the pilots name.
Name Victories Info
Helmut Lent 110.00
Egon Mayer 102.00
Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein 83.00
Werner Streib 66.00
Guenther Radusch 65.00
Rudolf Schoenert 64.00
Paul Zorner 59.00 The signature of Paul Zorner features on some of our artwork - click here to see what is available.
Gerhard Raht 58.00
Heinz Struening 56.00
Heinz Vinke 54.00
Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weissenfeld 51.00
Hermann Greiner 50.00
Paul Gildner 48.00
Ludwig Becker 46.00
Paul Semrau 46.00
Alois Lechner 43.00
Leopold Fellerer 41.00
Wilhelm Beier 36.00
Heinz-Horst Hissbach 34.00
Karl-Heinz Scherfling 31.00
Gerhard Friedrich 30.00
Lothar Linke 28.00
Rudolf Sigmund 28.00
Heinz Grimm 27.00
Alfons Koster 25.00
Karl Hulshoff 24.00
Arnold Doring 23.00
Horst Patuschka 23.00
Hermann Sommer 19.00
Kurt Holler 18.00
Wendelin Breukel 14.00
Herbert Bönsch 13.00
Walter Fenske 13.00
Siegfried Ney 11.00
Hans Berschwinger 10.00
Emil Woltersdorf 10.00
Peter Laufs 8.00
Helmut Thomas 7.00 The signature of Helmut Thomas features on some of our artwork - click here to see what is available.
Paul Bohn 5.00

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