Rapid combat squadron 10

Rapid combat squadron 10
active	February 1, 1943 to December 1944
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Wehrmacht
Armed forces	air force
Branch of service	Air force
Type	Rapid combat squadron
structure	Squadron staff and 4 groups
equipment	Focke-Wulf Fw 190
Second World War	Allied invasion of Italy Capricorn company Allied invasion of France
Squadron commodors
First commodore	Major Günther Tonne

The Schnellkampfgeschwader 10 was an association of the Luftwaffe in World War II .

Lineup

The squadron staff and the I. Group were formed in Poix in German-occupied France at the beginning of 1943 . At the same time the II. Group was set up in Caen-Carpiquet . A III. Group was created by renaming the III. Group / Destroyer Squadron 2 in May 1943. The IV. Group was formed in April 1943 from the renamed fighter bomber squadrons of Jagdgeschwader 2 and 26. The squadron was equipped with the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 .

history

Staff and I. Group were stationed in Saint-André-de-l'Eure from December 1942 . Starting in April 1943, the I., II. And IV. Groups from Amsterdam-Schiphol attacked targets on the English coast. In particular, the port cities of Great Yarmouth, Hastings, Margate, Folkestone, Lowestoft and London on the east coast of England were attacked. Staff and I. Group returned to St. André in May, where the latter stayed until October 1943.

In June 1943, the squadron staff and the II and IV groups moved to southern Italy for some time, where they took part in the fight against the Allied troops after the landing in Sicily and southern Italy. The places used later in 1943 included u. a. Coulommiers .

The II. And III. Group left the squadron in February 1944 and switched to battle squadron 4. Before that, in October 1943, the IV group had already changed to battle squadron 10.

I./SKG 10 took part in the Steinbock company from January 1944 . In June 1944 it was part of the IX. Air Corps 3 . The bases used in 1944 included u. a. Roye-Amy . After the start of the Allied invasion of Normandy, operations against Allied ground troops followed, which resulted in the renaming to III./KG 51 in December 1944 .

Squadron commodors

Rank	Surname	time
major	Günther Tonne	December 1942 to July 15, 1943
major	Heinz Schumann	July 16, 1943 to October 18, 1943

Known squadron members

• Kurt Dahlmann (1918–2017) was editor-in-chief of the Allgemeine Zeitung in Namibia from 1958 to 1978
• Gerhard Limberg (1920–2006), was from 1974 to 1978, as Lieutenant General of the Air Force of the German Armed Forces , Inspector of the Air Force

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).
• Ulf Balke: The Air War in Europe 1939–1941 . Bechtermünz Verlag, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-86047-591-6 (1057 pages).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Dierich, pp. 91–92.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Wolfgang Dierich, p. 92.
3. ↑ Ulf Balke, p. 390.
4. ↑ Leo Niehorster : German Air Force Order of Battle, 3rd Air Fleet, IXth Air Corps, 6 June 1944 ( Memento from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 30, 2014.