Schnellkampfgeschwader 210
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Schnellkampfgeschwader 210 |
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 Squadron coat of arms of the SKG 210 |
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| active | April 24, 1941 to spring 1942 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | air force |
| Branch of service | Air force |
| Type | Rapid combat squadron |
| structure | Squadron staff and 2 groups |
| mascot | hornet |
| Squadron commodors | |
| First commodore | Captain Walter Storp |
The Schnellkampfgeschwader 210 (SKG 210), squadron identification S9, was a squadron of the Luftwaffe in World War II . It was set up on April 24, 1941 in Merville . At the beginning of 1942, the two groups of the squadron formed the main component of the second formation of the destroyer squadron 1 (ZG 1).
The squadron took part in the first phase of the Eastern campaign and was instrumental in the initial collapse of the Russian defense. Above all, deep attacks on airfields, anti-aircraft and artillery positions, tank deployments and rail traffic were flown. On the Eastern Front , the squadron lost a total of 57 Bf 110s between June 22 and September 22, 1941 with the simultaneous destruction of 519 Soviet aircraft, 83 tanks and around 1,700 vehicles of all types.
Commodore
| Rank | Surname | date |
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| Captain | Walter Storp | April 24, 1941 to September 30, 1941 |
| major | Arved Crüger | September 30, 1941 to January 1942 |
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I. group
The 1st group of the squadron emerged from the test group 210 set up on July 1, 1940 , which had flown numerous attacks on southern England. The heavy losses of the test group meant that it had to be withdrawn from operation for a few weeks in October 1940 to refresh it. Thereafter, the attacks continued until it was renamed I./SKG 210 on April 24, 1941. After the start of Operation Barbarossa , the Eastern campaign, the group flew on the Eastern Front as part of Army Group Center in association with Guderian's tank units to Moscow and in the winter defensive battles of 1941/1942.
- Commanders
| Rank | Surname | date |
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| Captain | Karl-Heinz Stricker | April 24, 1941 to September 13, 1941 |
| major | Ulrich Diesing | September 14, 1941 to January 1, 1942 |
| Captain | Wolfgang Schenck | January 1, 1942 until dissolution |
II group
The II. Group became from the III. Group of Destroyer Squadron 76 set up in Stavanger-Sola in the spring of 1941 and flew from June as part of the Eastern campaign together with the staff group at Army Group North to Leningrad . From September 1941 she was moved to the central section of the front, where she strengthened the I. Group of her squadron. The sole commanding officer was Captain Rolf Kaldrack , who led the group from April 24, 1941 to February 3, 1942.
Known squadron members
- Arved Crüger (1911–1942), died in 1942 as a squadron commodore in the Mediterranean area and was the husband of actress Carola Höhn
literature
- Georg Brütting : That was the German Stuka aces 1939–1945. 4th edition. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-87943-433-6 , pp. 275-276.
- Wolfgang Dierich (Hrsg.): The associations of the air force. 1935-1945. Outlines and short chronicles. A documentation. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-87943-437-9 .
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