On 1 May 1945, according to his logbook, Jan Schild flew this machine the same day he was appointed as the new Staffelkapitän of 5./JG 26. In fact, during the first five days in May he flew in four different Doras participating in a total of 11 missions. These included escort, air-combat with Spitfires, ground-attack, fighter sweeps, and transferring aircraft.

This machine was found belly-landed at Løgumkloster in Denmark on 5 May. On that day, a II. Gruppe pilot on route to Lister in Norway crash landed "White 3" due to unknown causes, perhaps the pilot decided to abort his mission and be captured.

However on the same day Oblt. Jan Schild, flying in another Dora-9 "White 1" (probably the machine of the former Staffelkapitän Oblt. Peter Crump), continued his course as ordered towards Norway. He landed at Lister air base at 09:00 after a 45 minute and rather hazardous flight.

In Schild's own words: "The approximate flying time in our Fw 190 D-9s was 35 minutes. Because of the bad weather, clouds down to 150-200 meters, rain visibility between three and five kilometers, the transfer flight proved to be very dramatic. We flew in bad-weather formation: that is, the aircraft were about 10-15 meters apart, with the lead aircraft (myself) doing the navigation. After about thirty minutes, I should have had the Norwegian coast in sight. Even after another two or three minutes, which seemed like an eternity, I could not see land. After informing the formation behind me by radio, I changed the course by about 30 to 35 degrees, shortly after changing the course, I sighted land, and just where it should be, an airfield at the tip of a peninsula. Lister was a hazardous airfield, surfaced with wooden planks, steel mats, and rubble. All of the aircraft landed safely with the exception of one".

Thereafter followed a lengthy and dreadful time as POW in Norway, whereas their comrades in northern Germany were soon released by the British and could return to their homes.

This Dora-9 was completed by Focke-Wulf Mimental Erfurt in January 1945 and only two aircraft removed from the well photographed (and in color) Fw 190 D-9 "Blue 12" W.Nr.500570 of 8./JG 6.

As such, its camouflage can be ascertained with a high degree of certainty with its fuselage painted in RLM 81 and RLM 82 over RLM 76 (Graugrün). The machine's whole tail section was replaced at some point, perhaps due to battle damage, with its Werknumber re-painted by hand on the standard shade of RLM 76.

This profile was included as profile No 125. in my Profile Book No 10.