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Re: LW Transport Groups in Greece Dec 41
There's a photo in Morzik's book on German air transport operations that shows a typical load of fuel drums aboard a Ju 52 bound for North Africa. It's not possible to count the number of drums in the photo but they are definitely the big 55-gal. drums that we normally associate with oil and fuel. If my calculations are correct, each of these would weigh about 800-lbs. So 9 of them would be 7,200-lbs. According to William Green's Warplanes of the Third Reich (p.413), the Ju 52/3m could take a normal load of 8,334-lbs. If you add in the weight of the crew members and normal on-board equipment to the 7,200-lbs of fuel in the drums, you would be just about at the 8,334-lb. limit.
L.
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