Airborne Squadron 1
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Airborne Squadron 1 |
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| active | July 27, 1940 to September 9, 1944 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | air force |
| Branch of service | Air force |
| Type | Airborne squadron |
| structure | Squadron staff and 4 groups |
| Location | Staff Hildesheim I. Group Hildesheim II. Group Halberstadt III. Braunschweig-Waggum IV group. Langendiebach group |
| equipment | DFS 230 and various tow planes |
| Second World War | Airborne Battle of Crete , Battle of Stalingrad |
| Squadron commodors | |
| First commodore | Lieutenant Colonel Gustav Wilke |
The Luftlandegeschwader 1 was an association of the Luftwaffe in World War II . It was the only Luftwaffe squadron equipped with the DFS 230 cargo glider .
Lineup
The staff and the I. Group were formed on July 27, 1940 at the Hildesheim Air Base ( Lage ). They received the Junkers Ju 52 / 3m as a tow plane for the cargo glider DFS 230 and from September 1942 the Dornier Do 17 .
Group II was formed on July 27, 1940 in Halberstadt ( Lage ) and had the Junkers Ju 52 / 3m in its ranks as a tow plane. From September 1942 she received the Avia B-534 and from April 1943 the Junkers Ju 87 .
The III. Gruppe was set up on August 22, 1940 in Braunschweig-Waggum ( Lage ) and received the Henschel Hs 126 as a tow plane.
In January 1943, a fourth (supplementary) group was added in Langendiebach ( Lage ), which flew with the Avia 65. The four groups initially comprised three squadrons each, then four each from April 1943. The squadron identification was H4.
history
After the squadron was set up, it remained stationed on its home orchards. It was not until April 1941 that the I. Group moved to the airfield Tanagra ( Lage ) in Greece and prepared for the airborne battle over Crete . In addition, she was the XI. Air Corps of the Air Force 4 assumed. On May 20, she brought paratroopers to the island, flying in the first wave . Many of the gliders broke on landing. From June the first group was back in Hildesheim.
In January 1943, the staff, the I. and II. Groups moved to Zaporozhye in the south of the Soviet Union and carried out supply flights to the enclosed German troops in the Stalingrad pocket . In February, the I., II. And IV. Groups moved with the squadron staff to the Kersch IV airfield ( Lage ) on the Kerch peninsula . From there, German soldiers flew across the Kerch Strait from the Caucasus to Crimea . In April the squadron returned to its home bases. There the IV group disbanded.
In May and June 1943, the squadron went with the staff and the I. to III. Group to southern France and was among others on the courses in Lézignan ( location ), Aix-les-Milles ( location ) and Valence ( location ).
From February / March 1944, the II. And III. Group on the Balkans in Southeast Europe. There they occupied the places in Zirkle ( Lage ) and Alibunar ( Lage ) and from May also in Kruševac ( Lage ). There, the towing aircraft Ju were 87 of the II. Group mainly as attack aircraft used in the ground fighting.
On September 9, 1944, the squadron disbanded. Only the II. Group, which was renamed Nachtschlachtgruppe 10, flew on with their Junkers Ju 87s. The remaining former members of the squadron were deployed on the ground in the final battles of the war.
Commanders
Squadron commodors
| Rank | Surname | time |
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| Lieutenant colonel | Gustav Wilke | July 22, 1940 to August 1941 |
| Major general | Rüdiger von Heyking | November 1, 1941 to November 24, 1942 |
| Colonel | Hans Eggersh | December 7, 1942 to September 1944 |
Group commanders
- I. group
- Major Walter Kiess, August 21, 1940 to December 1940
- Major Karl Stein, December 1940 to August 22, 1941
- Major Peter Ingenhoven, August 22, 1941 to August 14, 1942
- Captain Hans Krug, August 14, 1942 to September 9, 1944
- II group
- Captain Arnold Willerding, July 27, 1940 to December 30, 1940
- Major Otto Pfister, December 30th to December 7th, 1941
- Captain Wolfgang Voigt, December 7, 1941 to June 1942
- Captain Ludwig Reeps, July 1, 1942 to December 1942
- Captain Karl-Heinz Schomann, December 1942 to March 1943
- Captain Hans Schweitzer, March 1943 to March 19, 1943
- Captain Heinz Trautwein, March 20, 1943 to June 14, 1943
- Major Eberhard Jahnke, June 15, 1943 to September 9, 1944
- III. group
- Major Richard Kupschus, August 1940 to September 1941
- Captain Eberhard Wildhagen. September 1941 to October 1, 1941
- Captain Weber, October 1, 1941 to October 1942
- Captain Gerhard Lange, October 10, 1942 to June 24, 1943
- Captain Josef Karl, June 25, 1943 to?
- Captain Hans-Günther Nedden,? until August 1944
- Major Eberhard Wildhagen, September 1, 1944 to September 18, 1944
IV. Group
- Walter Scherf, 1943
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, Germany (1937 Borders) , p 288, accessed on 15 July 2020th
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45, Germany (1937 Borders) , S. 260 + 261, accessed on 15 July 2020th
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45, Germany (1937 Borders) , p 83, accessed on 15 July 2020th
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45, Germany (1937 Borders) , S. 374 + 375, accessed on 15 July 2020th
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Greece, Crete and the Dodecanese , pp 64-65 , accessed on July 12, 2020th
- ↑ Leo Niehorster : The Battle for Crete, XIth Air Corps, German 4th Air Fleet, May 20, 1941 , accessed on July 12, 2020.
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 Russia (incl. Ukraine, Belarus and Bessarabia) , pp 260-264 , accessed on 12 July 2020.
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45 France (with Corsica and Channel Islands) , S. 6, 215, 368 , accessed on July 12, 2020th
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