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Re: Fuhrer Kurier Staffel
Here is the unit continuation. These obscure Kurier- and Verbindungsstaffeln are difficult to find information about. One of the big questions is whether it continued to use the Kurierstaffel des Führers designation or was redesignated Verbindungsstaffel 7. There seems to be no proof that it did, only unsubstantiated statements in the postwar literature. Several of the members here have the NVMs and the Summarische Verlustmeldungen for 1944 that might give more information regarding the aircraft allocated to this Staffel and its true designation during 1944-45.
Verbindungsstaffel 7
Formation. (Mar 44)
Formed March 1944 at Berlin-Staaken and Rastenburg/East Prussia by renaming Kurierstaffel des Führers. Staffel equipped with day and night fighters as well as courier/liaison aircraft.
Germany. (Mar 44 - May 45)
25 Apr 44: the Staffel filed a claim for shooting down an RAF Lancaster bomber near Dachau/N of Munich at 0209 hours. Unfortunately, there are no further details.
27 Apr 44: Ju 88C-6 lost in the Schweinfurt area during a night fighter mission, 100%, Staffelkapitän Hptm. Bornschein and 2 others KIA.
Apr 45: at Neuburg/Donau with at least some He 262 jets. The Staffel was supposed to move to Lechhausen along the Munich-Augsburg Autobahn and use the Autobahn as a runway.
FpN: none.
Staffelkapitän:
Hptm. Walter Bornschein (Mar 44 - 27 Apr 44) KIA
Hptm. Paul Talk (May 44 - 8 May 45)
© H.L. deZeng IV, 2003
Sources:
Jet & Prop magazine, Heft (issue) 4/1994:43-50; Günther Ott e-mail to Chris Goss dated 13 Feb 2002.
BA-MA Freiburg: Luftwaffen-Personalamt L.P.(A)5(V) (OKL Chef für Ausz. und Disziplin). 18 rolls of microfilm consisting of partial daily log sheets and summaries of Luftwaffe enemy aircraft victory claims as reported by both air and antiaircraft units to the end of 1944, many of the entries being extremely difficult to read. The material has been keyed to a database and can be found at website tonywood.cjb.net under the short title “O.K.L. Fighter Claims”.
G.Ott-op cit.
M.Jurleit-Strahljäger Me 262 im Einsatz: Alle Geschwader, Gruppen und Kommandos:116.
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