[Richard Mills]

Gents

Many thanks indeed for your replies.

I am in the process of purchasing the document group of Georg Spring (the postman is due to deliver tomorrow as it happens!) and just wanted to do a small amount of ground work on his aircraft and unit prior to researching in more depth.

As Andrew rightly stated, a document is present (dated 06-July-44)relating to Spring's death, signed by Henze as Gruppenkommandeur I./SG77, but bears the stamp of I./St.G77.

As I understand it, I./SG77 was formed by the re-designation of I./St.G77 on 18-October-43.

As the last dated document for Spring is with the Einsatzstaffel/St.G77 and is dated 04-October-43 (all documents prior to this are for 4./St.G77) this leads me to think (although I may well be wrong on this) that Spring transferred to I./St.G77 before the unit was re-designated as I./SG77.

If anyone can add any thoughts to this, I would be very grateful indeed.

Regards Richard.