Fighter-bomber squadron 32

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Jagdbombergeschwader 32
- JaboG 32 -
III

Coat of arms of the fighter-bomber squadron 32

Internal association badge (coat of arms)
active July 7, 1956
(flight operations since July 22, 1958) to March 31, 2013
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg air force
structure 2 groups ,
2 flying squadrons
Strength approx. 1800 soldiers
Insinuation Coat of arms Kdo 1 LwDiv.png1st Air Force Division
Location Lagerlechfeld Lechfeld Air
Base
Awards Flag of Germany.svg Flag ribbon
Germany (1997), flag ribbon Bavaria (1999)
Flag of Bavaria (striped) .svg
Last tour
Commodore Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Dohler
Aircraft
Fighter aircraft /
helicopter 		Tornado "IDS" and "ECR"

The Jagdbombergeschwader 32 (short FBW 32 ) was a flying combat unit of the Air Force of the Armed Forces , which on the Lechfeld Air Base in the district of Augsburg in Bavaria was stationed. The squadron was last equipped with the Panavia Tornado , the association was dissolved as part of the 2011 Bundeswehr reform on March 31, 2013. The post of JaboG 32 existed until December 21, 2013.

assignment

In times of peace, JaboG 32 was tasked with ensuring its operational readiness in accordance with national and NATO requirements through tactical association training and participation in various exercises. During the last two decades of its existence, the JaboG 32 was primarily responsible for the suppression of enemy air defenses during air war operations . For this purpose, the squadron was initially the only unit of the Air Force equipped with the Tornado ECR (Electronic Combat & Reconnaissance).

history

Tornado ECR of the JaBoG 32 with AGM-88 and AIM-9L guided missiles

The Fighter Bomber Wing 32 took up its service and flight operations with machines of the type Republic F-84 F "Thunderstreak" on July 22, 1958 and was stationed at the Lechfeld Air Base until it was dissolved.

About 80,000 flight hours were flown on the F-84F before the squadron received new F-104G "Starfighter" aircraft in 1965 . The last thunderstreak left the air base on July 13, 1966. The Starfighter flew until April 1984. With it 204,986 flight hours were achieved in 19 years. The successor model Panavia Tornado IDS was introduced from 1984. It was first used as a conventional fighter-bomber until 1991 when conversion to the Tornado ECR began. For many years JaboG 32 was the only German association that flew the Tornado ECR. This variant was specially equipped to combat enemy radar positions. The armament consisted, among other things, of AGM-88-HARM missiles (high-speed anti-radiation missiles).

In the period from 1980 to 1994 seven HFB 320 ECM aircraft belonged to the squadron and formed the 3rd squadron. The aircraft had originally been stationed at Lechfeld Air Base since 1976, but were under the command of the 4th Telecommunications Training Regiment and the Experimental Regiment 61 until 1980.

From 2008 Ulrike Flender , the first German female fighter pilot, was deployed with the squadron.

On October 26, 2011, in the presentation of the 2011 stationing concept and the implementation plan following on June 12, 2012, the BMVg stated that the squadron should be disbanded in March 2013. The 1st flying squadron " Lechfeld Tigers " ( 321st ) was disbanded at the end of October 2012 and on the day of the last roll call on March 20, 2013, when the troop flag was drawn in, almost all of the remaining tornadoes had already hit the Lechfeld in the direction of reconnaissance squadron 51 in Jagel or left the 33rd Fighter Bomber Squadron in Büchel . Most of the squadron members were also transferred there. Some older machines were approved for scrapping. The very last tornado took off from Lechfeld on March 27, 2013 following the handover of the airfield to the 74th Jagdgeschwader 74 .

Including the 182,000 hours on the tornado, the squadron achieved 555,000 flight hours in its almost 55 years of service, 460,000 of them on the Lechfeld. After the squadron was dissolved, the traditional Fighter Bomber Squadron 32 was founded in 2013.

structure

Lechfeld Air Base (Germany)
Lechfeld Air Base
Lechfeld Air Base
Location Lechfeld
Air Base Coordinates: N48 ° 11 ′ 08 ″ E10 ° 51 ′ 40 ″

Fighter Bomber Wing 32 was part of the 1st Air Force Division . Since the dissolution of the air base group tasked with protecting the property in 2006, the squadron was structured as follows until the start of its decommissioning phase:

  • Staff JaboG 32
  • Flying group (FlgGrp):
    • Staff flying group
    • Flight operations relay (FlBtrbStff)
    • 1st Flying Season (Tigers)
    • 2. Flying Season (Monsters)
  • Technical Group (TGrp):
    • Technical Group (with staff)
    • Maintenance relay (InstStff)
    • Electronics relay (EloStff)
    • Maintenance and weapons relay (WtgWaStff)
    • Supply and transport relay (NuTStff)

Commodore

No. Rank Surname vocation
1. Lieutenant colonel Siegfried Barth from 07/22/1958
2. Colonel Paul shudder from October 27, 1961
3. Colonel Hans Klaffenbach from October 1st, 1964
4th Colonel Jürgen Schultze-Röhl from 04/01/1972
5. Colonel Hans-Joachim Griese from October 1st, 1973
6th Colonel Dieter Seebeck from October 1st, 1976
7th Colonel Gerd Gloystein from October 1st, 1980
8th. Colonel Friedrich Morgenstern from 07/01/1982
9. Colonel Helmut Ochsenkühn from October 1st, 1984
10. Colonel Walter Jertz from 02/05/1988
11. Colonel Bernd Bretschneider from 1991
12. Colonel Johann-Georg Dora from 1994
13. Colonel Hans-Georg Schmidt from 1997
14th Colonel Peter Schelzig from 1998
15th Colonel Peter Stütz From 2001 onwards
16. Colonel Bernhard Martin from
17th Colonel Burkhard Kollmann since 2006
18th Colonel Stefan Scheibl from 2009 on
19th Lieutenant colonel Thomas Dohler from

Calls

Forces of FBW 32, as part of the NATO mission in the former Yugoslavia on 17 July 1995 on the combat wing 1 of the Air Force to Piacenza relocated / Italy. From August 7, 1995, operations were flown from there as part of Operation Deliberate Force . This was the first combat mission of the German Air Force after the Second World War. The Einsatzgeschwader 1 carried out reconnaissance and SEAD missions .

The squadron took part in the NATO air warfare operation Allied Force against Serbia from March 24 to June 11, 1999 . 236 HARM missiles were fired.

Incidents

  • 1961
    In a particularly tense phase of the Cold War - one month after the Berlin Wall was built - on September 14, 1961 two F-84F "Thunderstreak" of Fighter Bomber Wing 32 with pilots Sergeant Pfefferkorn and Sergeant Eberl mistakenly flew over GDR territory and landed at the West Berlin Tegel Airport . Started as part of the NATO readiness test "Checkmate" in Lechfeld, both had deviated so much from the course that they misinterpreted the Belgian Liège as the French Reims on their training flight . Pfefferkorn's compass apparently showed a deviation of 40 to 60 degrees, in addition there were significantly stronger winds from the west than predicted. Both factors resulted in a massive agreement of course to the east. Only in the airspace of the GDR (which both pilots did not suspect) did Pfefferkorn send Mayday , which to his amazement was answered by the Tempelhof Tower . The officers there advised to fly on to Berlin so as not to turn around and encounter the now 40 Soviet interceptors behind them. They landed safely and without incident around 4 p.m. Apparently only a thick cloud cover had prevented the confrontation with Soviet interceptors. The incident resulted in the so-called "Beer Order '61" of the then Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss , according to which any commander whose troops violated an international border would be removed immediately. The commander of JaBoG 32, Lieutenant Colonel Siegfried Barth, was deposed on the same day.
  • 1964
    On September 15, 1964, a Lockheed T-33 training machine belonging to Fighter Bomber Wing 32 crashed near     Straßberg near Bobingen . The pilot of the accident machine was Lieutenant Ludger Hölker . After a loss of power in the engine, the Lockheed went into a descent, flying towards the town of Straßberg . Oberleutnant Hölker remained in the plane until there was no longer any danger to the village. This selfless behavior cost him his life, but Straßberg and its residents were saved from catastrophe. The victim death of Ludger Hölkers earned him numerous posthumous honors, including the rescue medal on ribbon (1965), as well as several streets named after him, one in Bobingen and one in the Schwabstadl barracks. In order to honor his exemplary behavior and to encourage future officers to confront Hölker as a person, the largest classroom at the Luftwaffe officer's school in Fürstenfeldbruck was named "Ludger-Hölker-Saal" in 1977.
  • 1965
    On December 23, 1965 there was a crash near Laichingen due to spatial disorientation of the pilot. Captain Josef Weiher lost his life in the process.
  • 1966
    On March 18, 1966 Fw Harry Thiedemann lost his life due to an engine failure of his F-104. The place of the crash was Lechfeld.
Crash on April 17, 1968: memorial plaque at the crash site in Königswiesen (Gauting)
  • 1968
    On April 17, 1968, pilot captain Ferdinand Eckert lost radio contact with air traffic control during a Mach 2 flight. Then there was a crash at Gauting. Captain Eckert was killed in the crash.
  • 1970
    On January 22nd, 1970, a collision in the air (details are not known) caused a crash near Leeder. Fw. Gerd Wegmann was able to save himself through the ejection seat. HptFw Wilfried Kellenter was killed.
  • 1970
    On October 30, 1970 Major Horst Weidemann had to get out of his plane due to an engine failure. The machine crashed near Oberlainders.
  • 1971
    On July 28th 1971 the machine came from OFw. Willi Hochgräber from the runway. The pilot was not injured. The location of the accident was the airfield in Decimomannu / Italy.
  • 1974
    On December 10, 1974, the F-104G machine came off the runway. The pilot Oberleutnant Wolfgang Vhur was able to get out using the ejector seat.
  • 1976
    On June 16, 1976, two F-104G collided during a formation flight. Lieutenant Rüdiger Schnicke's plane, who survived, crashed near Zaisertshofen. Maj. Bernd Bretschneider landed safely.
  • 1976
    On September 20, 1976 First Lieutenant Peter Jantos lost control of his aircraft. The F-104G machine crashed at Giengen. The pilot was able to save himself.
  • 1976
    On November 22nd, 1976 an HFB 320ECM (tactical registration number 16 + 22) collided with a Fiat G.91 T fighter jet in Munich airspace. All five crew members of the HFB 320 were killed. The crew of the Fiat G.91T was able to save themselves with the ejection seat.
  • 1978
    On April 4, 1978 Major Uwe Schley lost control of his F-104G machine. The aircraft crashed on approach. Uwe Schley lost his life.
  • 1978
    On August 25, 1978, Lieutenant Rudolf Stoll also lost control of his F-104G. The machine crashed at Autenried. Lieutenant Stoll was able to get out.
  • 1981
    On May 18, 1981, Captain Manfred Brandt's machine hit the ground while shooting at the Heuberg military training area . Captain Brandt lost his life.
  • 1982
    On April 21, 1982 Lieutenant Peter Heidmann registered an engine failure after a bird strike. The machine crashed at Capo Frasca / Italy. Lieutenant Heidmann was able to save himself with the ejection seat.
  • 1982
    On December 7, 1982, Captain Martin Dötzer's machine had an engine failure, probably due to a bird strike. The aircraft crashed into the Irish Sea. Captain Dozer was able to get out.
  • 1985
    On October 24, 1985 a tornado IDS (44 + 45) crashed during an exercise ("mallet blow") near Stannersburn, in Northern England. The crew, consisting of Captain Hans-Joachim Schimpf and Captain Holger Zacharias, was killed.
  • 2004
    On December 9, 2004, an ECR tornado fell into a forest area near Kaufering . The 31-year-old pilot, Captain Eik von Zehmen, and his weapons systems officer , Major Konrad Huf, were killed in the crash. The tornado crashed just 3.5 km southeast of its home airfield Lagerlechfeld , from which it had previously taken off. At the time of the accident, a number of unfortunate and unfavorable circumstances played a role, including poor visibility and the tail wind during take-off.
  • 2007
    On April 12, 2007, a tornado ECR crashed on a training mission near Lauterbrunnen (Switzerland). The crew was on the return flight from Corsica. Shortly after the refueling stop at the Emmen military airfield in the canton of Lucerne , the tornado hit a rock face at a height of around 3700 m. The 26-year-old pilot , OLt Schawer, died, the weapons system officer was able to save himself with the ejection seat and then be rescued from the steep high mountain face by using a rescue helicopter. He suffered serious injuries. The investigations by the General Aviation Safety have now been completed: "Incorrect assessments of the terrain and the flight parameters of the aircraft by the crew were the cause of the aircraft accident on April 12, 2007, in which the pilot was killed."

Exercises

A Tornado ECR of JaboG 32 at "Red Flag Alaska 08-3"

1989

2002

2003

  • May: ELITE Exercise (Lechfeld Air Base)
  • October: "Saxon Shield" ( RAF Marham , Great Britain)

2006

  • May: ELITE Exercise (Lechfeld Air Base)
  • November: NATO Trial "Spartan Hammer" ( Andravida , Greece)

2007

  • March: CAP-EVAL (Neubrandenburg Air Base)
  • June: ELITE Exercise (Lechfeld Air Base)
  • September: NATO Air Meet: "Bold Avenger" ( Ørland , Norway)
  • September: NATO Tiger Meet : "Arctic Tiger" (Ørland, Norway) canceled
  • November: TLP ( Base aérienne de Florennes , Belgium)

2008

2009

2010

  • "Brilliant Ardent" (Germany)
  • "Good Hope" (AFB Overberg, South Africa)
  • ELITE (Germany)
  • NATO Tiger Meet ( Vliegbasis Volkel , Netherlands)

literature

  • Werner Bischler, Klaus Hager: 50 years of fighter-bomber squadron 32. 150 years of Lechfeld's military history. Achensee-Verlag, Augsburg 2008, ISBN 3-938330-05-8 .

Web links

Commons : Jagdbombergeschwader 32  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhold Radloff: Lechfeld squadron is taking off. In: Augsburger Allgemeine. March 22, 2013, accessed April 23, 2016 .
  2. ↑ The last tornadoes take off from the Lechfeld. In: Augsburger Allgemeine. March 25, 2013, accessed April 23, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Michael Mäusly: Eurofighters welcome their new air base . In: Augsburger Allgemeine. March 28, 2013, accessed April 23, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Beer Order 61 . In: Der Spiegel . No.  19 , 1962, pp. 26-33 ( Online - May 9, 1962 ).
  5. ↑ Cold War: Crossing Borders in the Air . In: The time . September 14, 2011, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed July 29, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Attack altitude 800 . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed on July 29, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Fighter- bomber: Republic F-84F Thunderstreak in the Air Force . In: Aviation Classics . ( Klassiker-der-luftfahrt.de [accessed July 29, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Harald Meyer: First Lieutenant Ludger Hölker - a flight accident . In: Military History Research Office (Hrsg.): Military history: Journal for historical education . Military history in the picture. 2005, ISSN  0940-4163 , p. 39 ( online [PDF; accessed on March 24, 2017] issue 1 + 2/2005).
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n F-104 Losses - crashes or disposal after severe damage. In: Cactus Starfighter Squadron. Retrieved April 23, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Commemoration of the crash site. Münchner Merkur, accessed on August 21, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Dangerous mixture . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , July 3, 1978, ISSN  0038-7452 , p. 52 ( online [accessed April 23, 2016]).