The unit made radio contact with the US XIX Tactical Air Command, and was directed to the airfield at Kitzingen. But this was in the future when Rudel led the three Ju 87s and four FW 190s westwards in the afternoon of 8 May. This ground column was later attacked and destroyed, with few survivors. 2 had few serviceable aircraft, it was decided to fly as many men out as possible, while a vehicle convoy would try to reach the west with the rest of the unit's personnel. 2 were based at Kummer, in northern Bohemia, I./S.G. Oberst Hans-Ulrich Rudel's Schlachtgeschwader 2 had continued to support German ground forces in the east until the final days of the war, but with hostilities to cease on, and facing capture by the Russians, Oberst Rudel and his unit decided to try to reach the West. On, Kitzingen airfield in Germany was home to the Republic P-47s of the 405th FG, but before the day was out, it was also to be the home of a number of Luftwaffe Ju 87s and FW 190s. The surrender is quite relevent to the FW 190, because accompanying Rudel's Ju 87 G-2 - along with some other Ju 87s - were a number of FW 190s. Oberst Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Kommodore of Schlachtgeschwader 2, surrendered himself to the Allied Forces at Kitzingen on, the final day of the war in Europe. Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, 70 landing craft, nine aircraft, 4 armored trains, several bridges, a destroyer, two cruisers, and the Soviet battleship Marat.
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