View Single Post
  #2  
Old 23rd January 2008, 10:42
Evgeny Velichko's Avatar
Evgeny Velichko Evgeny Velichko is offline
Alter Hase
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Stalingrad
Posts: 1,289
Evgeny Velichko is on a distinguished road
Re: Need Staffel Assignment of Lt. Dietrich Weyergang a pilot in III./ZG 76 during the Battle of Britain

Hi! May be this could help:

From SIG:
http://www.luftwaffe.no/SIG/Losses/tap412.html

Quote:
05.07.41, Z-Kette I./JG 77, Bf 110 C-4, 3235, LN+ER, By Murmansk, 100%, Shot down by AA-fire.

(F) Lt. Dietrich Weyergang KIA
(Bf) Uffz. Kurt Tigges KIA
Claims (only 1 listed):
08-02-41 Ltn. D.Weyergang ? Sola I./JG77 Z. Lockheed 13:48 35km SW Stavanger

From Michael Holm's page:
http://www.ww2.dk/air/jagd/stavanger.htm

Quote:
I./JG77 (JGr. Stavanger)
1.(Z)/JG77 formed 6.41 in Herdla from 2./ZG76 (Bf 110).
But in the same way very strange thing:
Gunther Tonne's claims are listed with his 9./ZG 76, but Helmiuth Viedebannt, Karl-Fritz Schlosstein, Rolf Hermichen (originally 8./ZG 76 pilots) and Gunther Reineke (originally StaKa 8./ZG 76) as claims are listed as with "Z Kette I./JG77".

The most strange: thing that when 1.(Z)/JG77 was reformed into 6.(Z)/JG5 (on25.1.42), then 10.(Z)/JG5 (on 16.3.42), and untill 26.6.42 (when it was finally renamed into renamed 13.(Z)/JG5) Oblt. Karl-Fritz Schlosstein was its Staffel Kapitan! And Viedebannt, Hermichen, Reineke came back to their own 8./ZG 76, but Karl-Fritz Schlosstein not!

So 8./ZG 76 is probably was his original staffel. But Michael Holm tells directly that 1.(Z)/JG77 formed 6.41 from 2./ZG76 (not from 8./ZG 76)...

I could only propose that some crew's that in spring 1941 some 8./ZG 76 pilots were attached to 2./ZG 76 to form 1(Z)./JG 77, but some of them was moved back to ther original staffeln and some of them stood in Zerstorerstaffel./JG77 - JG 5.

Best wishes.
__________________
Went to war.

Last edited by Evgeny Velichko; 23rd January 2008 at 14:47.
Reply With Quote