Nachtjagdgeschwader 6 · Pilot record and aircraft profile
Ludwig Schmidt
Oberfeldwebel, 8. and later 2. Staffel, NJG 6. Sixteen victory claims logged against RAF Bomber Command and one USAAF heavy bomber over the Western Front, 20 August 1944 to 17 April 1945, flying the Junkers Ju 88 G-6.
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Claims by hour and campaign order
Each blip is one claim. Angle marks the hour of night the interception was logged, from dusk (18:00) around to dawn (06:00). Distance from centre tracks the claim's position in the chronological sequence, earliest at the centre, latest at the rim — so the shape of the pattern shows both when at night and when in the campaign Schmidt was scoring.
RAF four-engine heavy Lancaster / Halifax — 15 claims
USAAF heavy B-24 Liberator — 1 claim
Full record
Claim log
Compiled from unit claim records. Click any column to sort. Times and locations are given as recorded; some entries carry no location detail in the source record. The final entry, against a Halifax on 17 April 1945, corresponds to the confirmed loss of RAF Halifax MZ-467 — see the aircraft and crew details below.
No.
Date
Time
Aircraft
Location
Staffel
Highlighted row: claim matched to a named Allied aircraft loss (MZ-467).
Aircraft
Junkers Ju 88 G-6
Schmidt's mount for the closing phase of his claims record. The G-6 reached front-line units in late 1944 — Junkers' final major production night-fighter variant of the Ju 88, and too late to affect the outcome of the night war.
The G-6 crew credited with downing Halifax MZ-467, early hours of 17 April 1945.
Pilot
Ofw. Schmidt
Radio operator
Ofw. Michels
Radar operator
Fw. Kretschmer
Air gunner
Uffz. Heidsiek
Airframe
Type
Ju 88 G-6 night fighter
In production
From mid-1944
Top speed
~360 mph
vs. G-1
+25 mph
Armament
4× 20mm cannon, ventral tray
Jumo 213A engine
Layout
Supercharged inverted V12
Displacement
35 L
Power (sea level)
~865 hp
Power (3,000m)
~960 hp
Takeoff (MW50)
~2,020 hp
MG 151/20 cannon
Caliber
20 mm
Rate of fire
~750 rpm
Muzzle velocity
~700–805 m/s
Effective range
~400 m
Hits to down a heavy
~18–25 (typical)
FuG 217 Neptun radar
Manufacturer
FFO
Role
Rearward warning
Frequencies
158 / 187 MHz
Search angle
120°
Range
400–4,000 m
Engine and cannon reference data drawn from published technical sources; radar identification reflects the type most likely fitted to Schmidt's aircraft rather than a confirmed unit record. Additional FuG 217 unit photographs (case interior, cockpit installation) are available on the companion Ju 88 G-6 page and can be pulled into this page directly if you'd like them here too.
