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Re: Bf 109E losses of Erg.Gruppe/StG 3 in early 1943
Boris -
This might help a little:
IV.(Erg.)/St.G. 3
Training in Greece and Italy. (Oct 41 - Jan 43)
15 Oct 41: Würzburg with about 20 crews in training.
29-30 Oct 41: transferred from Würzburg to Salonika-Sedes in Greece.
2 Dec 41: Ju 87R-1 crashed at Fp.Salonika-Sedes, 100%, 2 WIA.
9-10 Feb 42: transferred from Salonika-Sedes to Piacenza/N Italy with a brief stop over at Foggia/C Italy.
1 Oct 42: all or elements now at San Severo near Foggia. Trainees at this point were only with the Staffel for 6 weeks before being sent to one of the operational Gruppen.
17 Nov 42: Ju 87D-3 dove into the ground at Fp.San Severo, 100%, 1 KIA and 1 WIA.
10 Dec 42: Ju 87B-1 dove into the ground at Agazzano/18 km SW of Piacenza, 80%, 2 WIA.
1 Jan 43: Gruppe reported 28 x Ju 87D/R and 1 x Bf 109E-4 on strength.
Training and Anti-Partisan Operations in Yugoslavia and Greece. (Jan 43 - May 43)
15-20 Jan 43: transferred from Piacenza to Zagreb/Croatia to provide Stuka support for Operation “Weiss”, a major anti-partisan offensive against Tito’s communist bands in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Over the course of “Weiss”, which ran from January into March, the Gruppe flew at least 106 combat missions.
12 Feb 43: Ju 87R-4 burned out at Zagreb after the engine caught fire, 100%, 1 WIA.
24 Feb 43: Ju 87R-4 shot up and crash landed at Sarajevo, 15%.
2 Mar 43: Gruppenstab and one Staffel now at Athens-Kalamaki assigned to X.Fliegerkorps with a reinforced second Staffel at Zagreb.
23 Mar 43: 13 Ju 87s at Athens-Kalamaki and 21 at Zagreb.
1 Apr 43: Gruppe reported 2 x Ju 87R-1, 10 x R-2, 4 x R-4, 4 x D-1, 8 x D-3, 4 x Bf 109E-7 and 1 x Bf 109E-4 on strength.
[Sources for the above]:
AFHRA Maxwell/PRO London: P/W interrogation ADI(K) 320D/42.
All loss entries are from BA-MA Freiburg: RL 2 III Gen.Qu.(6.Abt.) Meldungen über Flugzeugunfälle und Verlust… (LRs – Loss Reports). This is the Staffel’s first reported loss.
AFHRA-P/W interrogation CSDIC AFHQ No. 5, 12 May 43.
BA-MA - Flugzeug-Bereitstellungen (Aircraft Availability Status Reports – FzB) in: Holm-website; all subsequent entries of this type are from this source.
PRO London: DEFE 3/ULTRA signals VM1878, VM5386; Nauroth-Stuka 2:262.
ULTRA signal VM5386.
ULTRA signal VM7337.
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