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Old 25th September 2023, 13:29
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Re: I./KG 51 1944

KAROBAND,
Would it be possible to inform me the list of 3./Kg 51's Staffelkapitäns per Jan Horn's book?
This is what I do have from De Zeng's Files, but there are huge gaps on this list:

Major Otto Neuenfelde – killed 7 November 1939 over France or Ingolstadt.
Hauptmann Gerhard Plischke – killed 17.11.39 Hptm., Staka 3./KG 51 KIA - died due to oxygen starvation, He 111 H crashed due to disorientation in bad weather, crew bailed out - 5 km S of Untertilliach, 20 km SSW of Lienz, Eastern Tirol - during a leaflet raid to Bordeaux and Marseille. Buried at Schweidnitz (Neumühlwerk-Friedhof).
Oberleutnant Heinz Unrau - 1940 ?? (at least 300 sorties)
Hauptmann Josef Schölss ??.06.42 – 13.12.1942 (295 sorties)
Hauptmann Georg Holle – early 1943. MIA 24 February 1943. Credited with 331 sorties.
Oberleutnant Günther Loeffelbein appointed on 15th February 1943 Staka. Credited 272 sorties.
Hauptmann Hans Gutzmer ? 1943 – 29.02.1944
Hauptmann Wolfgang Baetz - ?
Hauptmann Eberhard Winkel ??.10.44- 02.11.1944
Hauptmann Rudolf Rösch 03.11.44 (?) – 28.11.1944
Oberleutnant Wolfgang Baetz ? – Feb 1945?
Oberleutnant Gustav Stephan 21.03.45 – 30.04.45

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