Kampfgeschwader 200 was a German Luftwaffe special operations unit during World War II. The unit carried out especially difficult bombing and transport operations and long-distance reconnaissance flights, tested new aircraft designs and operated captured aircraft.
The first Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber operated by German forces, in KG 200 markings. It crash-landed near Melun, France, on December 12, 1942, and repaired by Luftwaffe ground staff.[citation needed] It gained a USAAF nickname, "Wulfe Hound"
Theodor Rowehl was a German pilot who founded the Luftwaffe's strategic air reconnaissance programme, and headed what became known as the Rowehl Squadron and became Kampfgeschwader 200 after his resignation in December 1943.
Lieutenant Colonel Theodor Rowehl in 1940, the year he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross