Fighter pilot Norway

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The Fighter Pilot Norway was a service in the German Air Force during the Second World War . The establishment of the office took place in June 1941 from the previous command staff of Destroyer Squadron 76. Forus was the command post . On March 16, 1945, the office was wound up in the course of a renaming to the new staff of Jagdgeschwader 5 . The primary task of the fighter pilot consisted in the operational management of the fighter pilot's associations stationed in his area. The Jagdgeschwader 5 was one of these . The fighter pilot was tactically subordinate to Luftflotte 5 and the commanding general of the German Air Force in Norway .

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general Walter Grabmann June 1941 to July 31, 1941
Major general Carl-Alfred Schumacher August 1, 1941 to April 30, 1943
Lieutenant colonel Gerhard Schöpfel May 1, 1943 to April 30, 1944
Lieutenant colonel Günther Scholz May 1, 1944 to May 8, 1945

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Friedrich Hildebrand: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935-1945, Part II, Volume 1: Abernetty – v.Gyldenfeldt, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1701-1 , pp. 383-384
  2. ↑ Karl Friedrich Hildebrand: The Generals of the German Air Force 1935-1945 Part II, Volume 3: Odebrecht – Zoch, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-2207-4 , pp. 269-270
  3. ↑ a b Ernst Obermaier: The Air Force Knight's Cross Carriers 1939–1945 Volume I Fighter Pilot, Dieter Hoffmann Verlag 1966, p. 205