Transport squadron 4
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Transport squadron 4 |
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| active | May 1943 to October 20, 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 |
Arado Ar 232 Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Junkers G 38 Junkers Ju 52 Junkers Ju 252 Junkers Ju 352 Junkers Ju 90 Lioré & Olivier LeO 45 Messerschmitt Me 323 Piaggio P.108 |
| Second World War |
Company Weser Exercise Airborne Battle of Crete Battle of Stalingrad Allied landing in Normandy |
| Squadron commodors | |
| First commodore | Colonel Richard Kupschus |
The Transportgeschwader 4 was an association of the Luftwaffe in World War II .
Lineup
The staff of Transportgeschwader 4 was set up in May 1943. The previously independent Combat Group for Special Use 105 (KGr. ZbV 105), which had existed since March 1940, was renamed the new I. Group . The II. And the III. Group emerged from the KGr, which had existed since December 10, 1941. zbV 500 and KGr. zbV 400. The fourth group was formed from the KGr, which had existed since December 17, 1941. zbV 700 formed. In addition to the 16 squadrons of these 4 groups, an independent 17th squadron was added in August 1944, the former sea transport squadron 1. The I. to III. Group were equipped with the three-engine Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft. The IV group flew with the Arado Ar 232 , Focke-Wulf Fw 200 , Junkers Ju 252 , Junkers Ju 352 , Junkers Ju 90 , the French Lioré & Olivier LeO 45, the Messerschmitt Me 323 and the Italian Piaggio P.108 . The wing recognition was G6. On October 20, 1944, the squadron staff, I and II groups were disbanded. The III. and IV. Group continued until the surrender in May 1945.
history
During operation weserübung , the occupation of Denmark and Norway , the battle group zbV 105 came under the X Air Corps used. This was in Kiel-Holtenau ( location ).
At the airborne battle for Crete , which began on May 20, 1941 , the combat group zbV 105 was the XI. Fliegerkorps subordinated to Luftflotte 4 . From the Greek airfield Tanagra ( Lage ), she flew paratroopers and airborne troops to Crete .
The combat group zbV 105 switched to the 2nd Fliegerkorps of Luftflotte 2 on June 22, 1941 at the beginning of the German-Soviet War . In 1942 she moved to Luftflotte 4 in the south of the Eastern Front. At the turn of the year 1942/43, she was from Tazinskaja airfield ( Lage ), together with the KGr. zbV 500 and KGr. zbV 700 used in the airlift to the Stalingrad boiler .
Meanwhile the KGr. zbV 400 used in the Mediterranean area by the air transport operator Mediterranean of Air Fleet 2. From Brindisi ( Lage ) in Italy she flew supply missions for the German troops in North Africa.
Groups I and II of Transport Wing 4 were subordinate to the X Air Corps of the Air Force Command Southeast in Greece in the second half of 1943 .
At the beginning of the Allied landing in Normandy , the IV. Group of Transport Wing 4, lying in Le Bourget ( Lage ), was subordinate to Air Fleet 3.
Commanders
Squadron commodors
| Rank | Surname | time |
|---|---|---|
| Colonel | Richard Kupschus | May 1943 to 1944 |
| major | Reimann | November 1944 to October 20, 1944 |
Group commanders
- I. group
- Major Rüdiger Jakob, May 18, 1943 to May 13, 1944
- Colonel Josef Kögl, May 13, 1944 to July 28, 1944
- Lieutenant Colonel Emil Herbst, July 28, 1944 to September 24, 1944
- Major Kurt Schneidberger, September 24, 1944 to October 1944
- II group
- Lieutenant Colonel Werner Hoffmann , May 15, 1943 to February 24, 1944
- Major Emil Herbst, February 24, 1944 to July 28, 1944
- III. group
- Major Herbert Heyer, May 1943 to 1944
- Captain Reinhard Wenning, 1944
- Captain Jakobs, 1944
- Captain Hans-Hermann Brambach, October 24, 1944 to May 8, 1945
- IV. Group
- Major Ferdinand Muggenthaler, May 1943 to September 18, 1943
- Captain Heinrich Hans, September 18, 1943 to May 1945
Known squadron members
- Werner-Eugen Hoffmann (1910–1998), was from 1968, as Lieutenant General of the Air Force of the Bundeswehr , Deputy Commander in the headquarters of the NATO Command Baltic Sea Exits (BALTAP)
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 29, 2019.
- ↑ Leo Niehorster: The Battle for Crete, Order of Battle German 4th Air Fleet 20 May 1941 , accessed on June 29, 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.
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Luftwaffe Airfields 1935-45, Russia (incl. Ukraine, Belarus & Bessarabia) , pp. 718-721 , accessed on May 29, 2020.
- ↑ Leo Niehorster: German Air Force, Order of Battle, 2nd Air Fleet, Chief of Air Transport in the Mediterranean, June 28, 1942 , accessed on June 30, 2019.
- ↑ Tony Wood: Order of Battle - Luftwaffenkommando Südost 31.8.43 / 20.10.43 / 10.11.43 , accessed on July 8, 2019.
- ^ Leo Niehorster: German Air Force Order of Battle, 3rd Air Fleet, June 6, 1944 , accessed on June 29, 2019.
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