Combat Squadron 102
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Combat Squadron 102 |
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| active | March 1, 1943 to August 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 2 groups |
| Location | Staff Grosseto I. Grosseto Group II. Grosseto Group |
| equipment | Heinkel He 111 , Junkers Ju 88 |
| Squadron commodors | |
| First commodore | Colonel Horst Beyling |
The Kampfgeschwader 102 was an association of the Luftwaffe in World War II .
Lineup
The forerunner of Kampfgeschwader 102 was Kampfschulgeschwader 2, which was set up in October 1941 from the Luftwaffe torpedo school. The squadron's staff, I and II groups were set up in Grosseto ( Lage ) in Italy. All units were equipped with the Heinkel He 111 and the Junkers Ju 88A . The wing identification was A8.
history
The Kampfgeschwader 102 continued the tasks of its predecessor from Grosseto on the Mediterranean Sea and trained fighter pilots in the use of the air torpedo. Operational missions were not carried out. When the danger of an Allied landing in Italy was foreseeable, the entire squadron relocated to Riga- Spilve ( Lage ) in Latvia on June 14, 1943 . Here the training was continued on the Baltic Sea. The German freighter Bucharest served as a workshop and target ship in the summer of 1943 . In August 1944 the squadron was disbanded.
Commanders
Squadron commodors
| Rank | Surname | time |
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| Colonel | Horst Beyling | March 1, 1943 to August 1944 |
Group commanders
- I. group
- Major Karl-Ferdinand Hielscher, March 1, 1943 to August 1944
- II group
- Colonel Wilhelm Emonds, March 1, 1943 to May 1, 1944
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: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Italy, Sicily and Sardinia , pp 109-111 , accessed on May 15 of 2019.
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45, The Baltic States-Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania , pp 83-85 , accessed on 6 June 2020th
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