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Re: eBay: Ju87A with StG 51 emblem?
This is probably of no interest because it does not deal with codes and markings, but what the heck, here it is anyway:
Fluglehrerschule d.Lw.
KStN: 1868 (L).
Established (April? July?) 1939 at Brandenburg-Briest to train instructor personnel for the various flying schools. Training detachments (Ausbildungskommandos) were eventually set up at 6 other airfields during the war years: Altengrabow, Aschersleben, Salzwedel, Quedlinburg, Prenzlau and Fürstenwalde. Representative aircraft losses charged to the school are noted below.
11 Oct 40: Fw 44 A-9 crashed and destroyed at Altengrabow airfield.
6 Mar 41: Ju 88 A-1 crashed and destroyed at Brandenburg-Briest airfield.
23 Feb 42: Fw 44 based at Quedlinburg crashed near Friedrichsbrunn and destroyed.
1942-43: frequent crashes and accidents at Brandenburg-Briest and Quedlinburg.
9 Dec 43: Ju 52 crashed and destroyed at Brandenburg-Briest airfield, Hptm. Heinz Gebhardt and 1 other killed, Hptm. Claus Sommer and 3 others injured.
29 Mar 44: 5 Bü 181s shot down by U.S. fighters over the Wernigerode area near Quedlinburg, 1 killed and 2 wounded.
Sum 44: under 2. Fliegerschuldivision with the following organization -
Stab and the Ausbildungsgruppenstab at Brandenburg-Briest and subordinated:
Überprüfungslehrgang LF at Salzwedel
Überprüfungslehrgang LF at Prenzlau
Überprüfungslehrgang ELF at Quedlinburg
1.u.2.Techn.Kp.
6 Aug 44: a Si 204 B (70%) and a Fw 58 (15%) based at Brandenburg-Briest were strafed on the ground at Altengrabow/31 km SW of Brandenburg-Briest.
Feb 45: Brandenburg-Briest under 4. Fliegerschuldivision.
22 Feb 45: an Ar 96 B-7 destroyed during a strafing pass on Quedlinburg airfield by Allied fighters.
9 Apr 45: ordered disbanded at Brandenburg-Briest and many of the personnel were conscripted as infantry and assigned to Kampfgruppe Havelberg/Elbe.
Leiter/Kommandeur:
Obstlt. Erich van Vloten (1 Apr 39 - 1 Aug 40)
Gen.Maj. Otto Fruhner (5 Aug 40 - 9 Apr 45)
[Sources: NASM T-2/USSBS roll 7001/8178; British Air Ministry – Post Hostilities Study A.I.12/M.76; BA-MA Freiburg: Signatur RL 2 III Loss Reports; G.Tessin - Teil 14: Die Luftstreitkräfte (Osnabrück, 1980); K.Ries - Deutsche Flugzeugführerschulen und ihre Maschinen 1919-1945 (Stuttgart, 1988), S.Carlsen/M.Meyer - Die Flugzeugführer-Ausbildung der Deutschen Luftwaffe 1935-1945, Band 1 (Zweibrücken, 1998), p437.]
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