KG200 Historians?

Any more information on this at all – reopening the research into this during the winter, and keen to gather as much information as possible.

FB

Whilst I have no information to offer it may be of interest to some of you to know that in the 1970’s I was stationed at Hildesheim with 1 Arty Bde HQ & Signal Squadron. As you may be aware Hildesheim was home to elements of KG200 and at the time I was there the scars of war were still very much in evidence. Bullet and cannon shell holes in the doors and walls of the hangars let in lovely cooling draughts in the middle of winter. Our cable store was in the wartime telephone exchange building which was semi subterranean.

I stand corrected; must have confused with someone else.

The only ‘concern’ I had with the P W Stahl KG200 book was that he only commanded part of the unit and so therefore one might wonder if he had gaps in his knowledge about the other units !
There are usually concerns about many wartime autobios but Peter Stahl was a highly qualified pre war Lufthansa pilot and I would be surprised if he felt the need to ’embellish’ any of his accounts !

An easily googleable quote

By 1944, because of the increasing action on the Western Front, Detachment Olga at
Frankfurt am Main was very busy. Olga was commanded by P.W. Stahl, an
experienced pilot who had flown supply missions in the fall of 1942 to Finnish longrange reconnaissance units operating deep in Soviet territory. His book, KG 200: The
True Story, is one of the few accurate accounts of the unit

If you want a giggle – have a look at the german wiki entry for PW Stahl

There is a paper back book on KG200 Pan Books. Written by J D GILMAN & JOHN CLIVE.

Its fiction, based around an idea of what might have happened if the Germans had some sort of super bomb (been a while since I read it but it wasn’t an atom bomb…) that could only be carried by B17s and use it to destroy the Houses of Parliament and kill Churchill. If you look at pictures of captured B17s in service, they are invariably repainted in Luft Waffe colour schemes – in fact, other than for propaganda films, all captured aircraft appeared to have been repainted – even when they were used for agent dropping behind allied lines.

I believe there were concerns about the PW Stahl book, although I can’t remember what they were.

There is a paper back book on KG200 Pan Books. Written by J D GILMAN & JOHN CLIVE. The phantom arm of Hitler’s Luftwaffe. They flew the Flying Fortress. They wore American uniforms. But they were Germans. Quoted from the book cover.

As posted by CD,Peter Stahl commanded a unit of KG200,but istr he insisted that the captured bombers were operated in german markings with german uniforms !His unit operated Ju188’s and were dropping ‘agents’ behind the lines very late in the war…cannot give any more details as away from home !
Peter Stahl also wrote the excellent ‘Diving Eagle’…an autobio about his JU88 flying !

Also KG200 by Geoffrey J. Thomas and Barry Ketley, Hikoki Publications.

‘KG200 The True Story’ by P.W.Stahl who flew with (and commanded?) KG200 makes pretty interesting reading.

There is a paper back book on KG200 Pan Books. Written by J D GILMAN & JOHN CLIVE. The phantom arm of Hitler’s Luftwaffe. They flew the Flying Fortress. They wore American uniforms. But they were Germans. Quoted from the book cover.