Transport squadron 3
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Combat Squadron zbV 2 |
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| active | August 26, 1939 to October 1944 |
| Country |
.svg){kind=small} German Empire
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | air force |
| Branch of service | Air force |
| Type | Transport squadron |
| structure | Squadron staff and 4 groups |
| equipment |
Junkers Ju 52 Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 |
| Second World War |
Operation Weser Exercise Airborne Battle for Crete Battle of Stalingrad |
| Squadron commodors | |
| First commodore | Colonel Gerhard Conrad |
The Transportgeschwader 3 was an association of the Luftwaffe in World War II . It was originally set up in August 1939 as Kampfgeschwader zbV 2 .
Lineup
The staff of Transportgeschwader 3 was set up in August 1939 as the staff of Kampfgeschwader for special use 2 (KG zbV 2). Groups I to IV with 16 squadrons of the Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft were subordinate to this staff. In November 1939 all four groups were disbanded. Only the Geschwaderstab KG zbV 2 continued to exist and from then on led independent transport groups. In May 1943 he was renamed to the staff of Transportgeschwader 3 and assigned to Kampfgruppe zbV 9 as I. Group, Kampfgruppe zbV 50 as II. Group, Kampfgruppe zbV 102 as III. Group and the combat group zbV 172 as IV. Group. All four groups were equipped with the three-engine Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft. From October 1943, the IV. Group also received the Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 . The squadron identification was 9P. In October 1944, the squadron staff and the IV. Group were disbanded. The I., II. And III. The group lasted until May 1945.
history
The combat group zbV 102 under the X. Fliegerkorps was deployed at the Weser Exercise Company , the occupation of Denmark and Norway . This was in Oldenburg ( location ).
At the airborne battle for Crete , which began on May 20, 1941 , the combat group zbV 102 was the XI. Fliegerkorps subordinated to Luftflotte 4 . From the Greek airfield Topolia ( Lage ), she flew paratroopers and airborne troops to Crete.
The combat group zbV 102 switched to the 2nd Fliegerkorps of Luftflotte 2 on the air base Bielice ( Lage ) near Warsaw on June 22nd, 1941 at the beginning of the German-Soviet War . At the end of June, Kampfgruppe zbV 9 came to the 8th Air Corps of Air Fleet 2 and flew transport operations from Biała Podlaska ( Lage ). Combat group zbV 50 was subordinate to Luftflotte 4 in the south of the Eastern Front and was located in Mielec-Smoczka ( Lage ). Meanwhile, the combat group zbV 172 in the Greek Eleusis ( Lage ) was assigned to the X. Air Corps.
The combat group zbV 50 moved in November 1942 to the Tazinskaya airfield ( Lage ) in the south of the Eastern Front. There she was subordinate to Luftflotte 4 and served with her around 50 Junkers Ju 52 from November to supply the units encircled in the Battle of Stalingrad .
When Transport Squadron 3 was set up, all four groups were in the Soviet Union. This did not change until the squadron was disbanded.
Commanders
Squadron commodors
| Rank | Surname | time |
|---|---|---|
| Colonel | Gerhard Conrad | August 26, 1939 to November 1939 |
| Lieutenant colonel | Karl Drewes | November 1939 to September 9, 1940 |
| Colonel | Hans Poetsch | September 10, 1940 to January 31, 1941 |
| Colonel | Rüdiger von Heyking | February 1, 1941 to December 9, 1941 |
| Colonel | Rudolf Trautvetter | December 9, 1941 to April 8, 1942 |
| Colonel | Arno de Salengre-Drabbe | April 1942 to December 25, 1942 |
| Colonel | Walter Erdmann | December 26, 1942 to May 1943 |
| Colonel | Theodor Beckmann | May 1943 to July 31, 1943 |
| Lieutenant colonel | Walter Schröder | August 1, 1943 to September 30, 1944 |
| Lieutenant colonel | Walter Hornung | September 30, 1944 to October 1944 |
Group commanders
- I. group
- Major Karl Christ, August 26, 1939 to March 1, 1940
- Lieutenant Colonel Johannes Janzen, March 1, 1940 to July 1942
- Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Jäckel, July 1942 to February 19, 1943
- Captain Hans-Hermann Ellerbrock, February 20, 1943 to May 1944
- Captain Georg-Dieter Matschullat, 1944 to May 1945
- II group
- Major Otto Baumann, November 1942 to May 8, 1945
- III. group
- Colonel Baur de Betaz, March 1940 to May 5, 1940
- Captain Walter Erdmann, February 1941 to June 1943
- Captain Paul Risch, June 1943 to April 11, 1944
- Captain Josef Penkert, April 11, 1944 to May 8, 1945
- IV. Group
- Major Erich Zähr, May 1943 to September 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
- ^ Leo Niehorster : Scandinavian Campaign, German Airforce, Order of Battle X Air Corps April 9, 1940 , accessed on June 28, 2019.
- ↑ Leo Niehorster: The Battle for Crete, Order of Battle German 4th Air Fleet 20 May 1941 , accessed on June 25, 2019.
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45, Greece, Crete and the Dodecanese , page 65 , accessed on June 28 of 2019.
- ↑ Leo Niehorster: German Air Force Order of Battle, 2nd Air Fleet, II Air Corps, June 22, 1941 , accessed on June 28, 2019.
- ^ Leo Niehorster: German Air Force Order of Battle, 4th Air Fleet, June 22, 1941 , accessed on June 28, 2019.
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Luftwaffe Airfields 1935-45, Russia (incl. Ukraine, Belarus & Bessarabia) , pp. 718-721 , accessed on May 29, 2020.
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