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Was meandering through the loss lists on luftwaffe.no, and noticed that in a 3 day period between II and III gruppe, they lost 14 aircraft to accidents, and a further 2 the next 2 days. Plus, over the next week a further 10. Mostly F's but a couple of G's.

Based on the strength reports I see, II Gruppe lost almost half their compliment of 109's, and III Gruppe 1/3.

I am assuming weather and snow contributed, but that is a lot of planes to lose in such a short time to non-combat operations.

Any further details/information on those days?
Maybe they wanted new G2's so plowed their machines into snowbanks? :-)



Date Unit Aircraft Wkno Location %Dmg Comment Personal
19.04.43 II./J.G.5 Bf 109F-4 13344 Alakurtti flyplass 65% Take off accident No personal injury
19.04.43 III./J.G.5 Bf 109F-4 7606 Petsamo flyplass 20% Take off accident No personal injury
19.04.43 III./J.G.5 Bf 109F-4 7439 Petsamo flyplass 70% Take off accident No personal injury
19.04.43 III./J.G.5 Bf 109F-4 7092 Petsamo flyplass 20% Take off accident No personal injury
19.04.43 III./J.G.5 Bf 109F-4 8659 Petsamo flyplass 55% Take off accident No personal injury
19.04.43 III./J.G.5 Bf 109F-4 7632 Petsamo flyplass 15% Take off accident No personal injury
21.04.43 II./J.G.5 Bf 109F-4 10157 Alakurtti flyplass 55% Take off accident No personal injury
21.04.43 II./J.G.5 Bf 109F-4 9239 Alakurtti flyplass 40% Take off accident No personal injury
21.04.43 II./J.G.5 Bf 109F-4 7230 Alakurtti flyplass 70% Take off accident No personal injury
21.04.43 II./J.G.5 Bf 109F-4 10123 Alakurtti flyplass 15% Take off accident No personal injury
21.04.43 II./J.G.5 Bf 109F-4 12615 Alakurtti flyplass 50% Take off accident No personal injury
22.04.43 III./J.G.5 Bf 109F-4 13129 Petsamo flyplass 20% Take off accident No personal injury
22.04.43 III./J.G.5 Bf 109F-4 10150 Petsamo flyplass 25% Take off accident No personal injury
22.04.43 III./J.G.5 Bf 109F-4 7540 Petsamo flyplass 20% Take off accident No personal injury
23.04.43 4./J.G.5 Bf 109G-2 13777 Alakurtti flyplass 100 Take off accident Uffz. Herbert Lorenz (F) Killed
25.04.43 II./J.G.5 Bf 109F-4 7499 Alakurtti flyplass 60% Take off accident No personal injury