Combat Squadron 101
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Combat Squadron 101 |
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| active | February 1, 1943 to October 31, 1944 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | air force |
| Branch of service | Air force |
| Type | Combat Squadron |
| structure | Squadron staff and 3 groups |
| Location | Staff Gardelegen I. Group Salon-de-Provence II. Group Greifswald III. Group Cognac use Season Varrelbusch Association Pilot School Tours |
| equipment | Junkers Ju 88 |
| Second World War | Defense against the Allied landing in northern France |
| commander | |
| Commodore | Colonel Robert Krauss |
The Kampfgeschwader 101 was an association of the Luftwaffe in World War II .
Lineup
The forerunner of Kampfgeschwader 101 was Kampfschulgeschwader 1, which was established on November 11, 1941 from the Great Fighting School 3. The squadron's staff operated from Gardelegen ( Lage ), while the I. Group in Salon-de-Provence ( Lage ), the II. Group in Greifswald ( Lage ), the III. Group in Cognac ( location ) and the squadron in Varrelbusch ( location ). In addition there was the Association Driving School / KG 101 in Tours ( Lage ). All units were equipped with the Junkers Ju 88A . The squadron identification was 5T.
history
The Kampfgeschwader 101 continued the tasks of its predecessor and trained unit commanders in combat squadrons. Only the Einsatzstaffel / KG 101, which was equipped with so-called mistletoe teams, carried out operational missions. In addition she was in the fight against the Allied landing in northern France the IX. Air Corps subordinated to Air Fleet 3 . The first attack on the invasion fleet took place from St. Dizier ( Lage ) on June 14, 1944. The first loss of a mistletoe combination ( Bf 109 F / Ju 88) was flown by Oberleutnant Albert Rheker, who was shot down by the crew of a Mosquito MK.XIII-0 of the RCAF and hit southeast of Caen behind the German lines at 23:40 . Other attacks followed with more or less success.
The squadron was disbanded on October 31, 1944. Previously, the staff of Group I, as well as the 1st and 3rd squadron, had been renamed the Greifswald bomb and target finder school. The 2nd squadron went to the Kampfgeschwader 66 as 9th squadron. From the 2nd group, the 4th squadron also went to Greifswald, while the 5th squadron was renamed 8th squadron KG 66. The III. The group disbanded in August 1943. The squadrons each formed supplementary units in Kampfgeschwader 2 and Schnellkampfgeschwader 210. The Einsatzstaffel switched to Kampfgeschwader 66 on October 10, 1944 as the 7th squadron, while the Association Leader School / KG 101 operated under the name Association Leader School of the General of Fighters from August 28, 1944 .
Commanders
Squadron commodors
| Rank | Surname | time |
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| Colonel | Robert Krauss | February 1, 1943 to October 31, 1944 |
Group commanders
- I. group
- Major Josef Knotzer, February 1, 1943 to?
- Major Heinrich Herzberg,? until February 1944
- Major Georg Graf von Platen, February 1944 to September 19, 1944
- II group
- Colonel Albert Böhm, February 1, 1943 to September 19, 1944
- III. group
- Captain Horst Beeger, February 1, 1843 to August 14, 1943
- Relay / KG 101
- First Lieutenant Horst Rudat , January 1944 to June 14, 1944
- Oberleutnant Alfred Pils, June 15, 1944 to September 24, 1944
- Association Driving School / KG101
- Captain Mathias Schwegler, February 1, 1943 to August 28, 1944
Known squadron members
- Horst Rudat (1920–1982), was from 1977 to 1980, as major general of the air force of the German armed forces , commander of the air transport command
literature
- Wolfgang Dierich: The air force associations 1935-1945 . Outlines and short chronicles one document. Ed .: Wolfgang Dierich. Verlag Heinz Nickel , Zweibrücken 1993, ISBN 3-925480-15-3 (703 pages).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Luftwaffe Airfields 1935–45 Germany , pp. 207–209, 234–236, 660–661 , accessed on May 14, 2019.
- ^ Leo Niehorster : German Air Force, Order of Battle, 3rd Air Fleet, IXth Air Corps, 6 June 1944. November 3, 2008, accessed on June 13, 2019 (English).
- ↑ Canadas Air Force History (English)
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