Night Fighter Squadron 7
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Nachtjagdgeschwader 7 |
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 The uniform squadron coat of arms of all night fighter squadrons. It shows an eagle plunging down from the night sky with red lightning on England. |
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| active | Early 1944 to May 8, 1945 |
| Country |
.svg){kind=small} German Empire
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | air force |
| Branch of service | Air force |
| Type | Jagdgeschwader |
| structure | 1 group |
| equipment | Bf 110 |
| Butcher | Second World War |
| Aircraft | |
| Interceptor | Ju 88 |
The Nachtjagdgeschwader 7 was a squadron of the Luftwaffe in World War II , which was primarily set up and used for night hunting . Despite the official designation as a squadron, the NJG 7 never got beyond group strength.
Calls
Originally the III. Group of Kampfgeschwader 3 formed the lighting group I./KG 7 assigned to Kampfgeschwader 7 in Münster at the beginning of 1944 . This group acted as a "marking group" as part of the Wilde Sau night hunting process . She led the German night fighters to the incoming bomber pods. In the summer of 1944 the I./KG 7 was renamed the I. Group of the Nachtjagdgeschwader 7. Station locations were Kastrup and Værløse . In October 1944, the group of the I. NJG 7 was as Group IV. In the Nachtjagdgeschwader 2 transferred. Subsequently, they were deployed there under this name until February 1945. Their 4th squadron, which was a supplementary squadron in Brieg , went in November 1944 as a new staff squadron to NJG 3. On February 23, 1945, the IV. The NJG 7 was subordinate to Luftflotte 3 and deployed to the 3rd Fighter Division .
Further information about the structure and squadron commodors is not known.
literature
- Wolfgang Dierich: The air force associations 1935-1945 - structure and short chronicles - a documentation. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1976.
- Steven Zaloga : Operation Pointblank 1944 - Defeating the Luftwaffe. Osprey Publishing 2011, ISBN 978-1-84908-385-0 .
- Christopher Shores: Duel for the sky - ten crucial air battles of world war II vividly recreated. Guild 1985, ISBN 978-0-385-19917-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Dierich, p. 73.
- ↑ Steven Zaloga: Operation Pointblank 1944 - Defeating the Luftwaffe. Osprey Publishing 2011, ISBN 978-1-84908-385-0 , p. 4. Outline google.books