[leonventer]

Originally Posted by Adam

Early April 1942, 6./JG 3 deployed to North Africa. Does anyone know a) the missing first names of the two pilots below, and b) who else was in the Staffel and transferred there at this time?

a) Oblt. Paul Stolte - Staffelkapitän, as I understand it. [According to Prien, Lt. Hans Fuß was Staka of 6. Staffel from Jan to Sep 42.]
Fw. Waibl [Couldn't find any mention of this pilot.]
Uffz. Michael Beikiefer [Not part of the deployment because he was lost on Mar 20 42.]
Uffz. Franz Schwaiger
Uffz. Josef Fritz

b) Some other 6. Staffel pilots who were at Martuba:
Uffz. Alfred Fischer
Uffz. Waldemar Eyrich
Uffz. Wolfgang Vogel

Prien states that twelve pilots were deployed to North Africa, and that they flew just 64 sorties in total.

Also, Beikiefer was lost on 20.3.42 whilst on a practice JaBo sortie over the Med. I know he was flying 109F-4 "Yellow 3 + -", but does anyone know the W.Nr of this aircraft?

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I don't have Prien/Stemmer's work on JG 3, but apparently on the day before Beikiefer had mistakenly attacked a Ju 88 and killed a crewman onboard. Are there any details of this and what - if any - action was to follow from this incident?

No further details, except that it was a Kette of Ju 88, and that Beikiefer was "completely shattered", according to Franz Schwaiger.

(Source: Prien's "Jagdgeschwader 3 'Udet': II./JG 3")

Leon Venter