The ramming idea goes back to 1943 with the formation of the heavy Fw 190 staffel.....Sturmstaffel 1, Author Barry Smith is working on a book on this unit. The ideas was to close in as close as possible in an armored Fw 190 and fire the 2cm wepaons in the inner wings and engines, thus securing a shoot down, if all else failed, ramm the bomber to bring it down. In fact there was declaration in the unit for all members to sign a document promising to do so or else..... ! Well truth is the unit had may 3 rammings total before it formed another staffel 11.Sturm/JG 3 in the spring of 1944 and constituted the base for all Sturmstafflen of JG 3, 4, and 300. Since Hajo was a great part of JG 300 in easy to see why he brought up the idea again even though it was a waste of human lives and succeded to do nothing to stop the devastation over the Reich. in April of 45 the Sonderkommando made up of newly schooled volunteer's, vets from Bf 109 gruppen in JG 300, 53 and a couple of other units and including a few ME 262's for cover, which is odd; the attack was planned and executed, the 109's not carrying any ammo, well at least most of them, and has been mentioned the diving attack was to shear off the tail, tail gunners position, and in so doing the Bf 109 pilot was to have time to bail out safely. With the overpowering presence of Allied air superiority only a couple dozen 109's were able to get through the escort screen and attack the B-17's and most of these were shot down.

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