{"id":546,"date":"2015-02-17T19:25:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/?p=546"},"modified":"2015-02-18T15:52:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T13:52:30","slug":"platzschutzstaffel-fw-190-d11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"Platzschutzstaffel Fw-190 D11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most famous unit which flew the Fw 190D is JV 44. Up to this time, five Focke-Wulf Fw 190Ds are known to have been used by JV 44, part of the so-called &#8216;Sachsenberg Schwarm&#8217;. Fancy, red lower surfaces with white stripes were used as a recognition feature to prevent friendly AA fire. These Doras protected Me 262 Schwalbe jets from JV 44 during their most vulnerable phase of flight \u2013 take-off and landing. &#8216;Red 4&#8217;, with the &#8216;Der n\u00e4chste Herr &#8211; diesselbe Dame&#8217; inscription is documented as being flown by Lt. Karl-Heinz Hofmann. The inscription can be translated as &#8216;different man, same woman&#8217;. This Dora ended her life at M\u00fcnchen-Riem airfield.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the greater length of runway it required, and the slow acceleration it had at low speeds, the Me 262 was especially vulnerable during take-off and landing. Galland thus established his own protection flight. Five Fw 190D-9s and D-11s were attached to JV44, the Platzschutzstaffel (Airfield protection squadron), headed by Leutnant Heinz Sachsenberg, to provide air cover for takeoffs and landings. Flights were to be undertaken in a two-aircraft Rotte up to altitudes of 500 metres, covering both the Me 262s taking off or landing and monitoring the surrounding skies for Allied fighters.<\/p>\n<p>The Platzschutzstaffel flew the long-nosed \u2018Dora\u2019, Fw-190 D-9, or Fw-190 D-11 variant of the well-known Fw 190. These aircraft were painted bright red on their wings\u2019 undersurfaces with contrasting white stripes so that anti-aircraft batteries could distinguish them from Allied piston-engined aircraft, leading to their humorous postwar nickname of the Papagei Staffel (Parrot squadron). The Staffel was nicknamed \u201cDie W\u00fcrger-Staffel\u201d, a play on the common nickname for the BMW 801 radial-engined original A-version of the Fw 190, which was W\u00fcrger or Butcher-bird.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/?page_id=532\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-537\" src=\"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/P1120202-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1120202\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/P1120202-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/P1120202.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/P1120202-676x507.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most famous unit which flew the Fw 190D is JV 44. Up to this time, five Focke-Wulf Fw 190Ds are known to have been used by JV 44, part of the so-called &#8216;Sachsenberg Schwarm&#8217;. Fancy, red lower surfaces with white stripes were used as a recognition feature to prevent friendly AA fire. These Doras &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/?p=546\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Platzschutzstaffel Fw-190 D11<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicalwings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}