Hi everyone!
I'm currently looking into my sources and somehow can't make head or tail of what happened to II./KG 76 and I./StG 76.
Our most favourite website (
www.ww2.dk) says the following on II./KG 76 ...
Quote:
On 9.7.40 redesignated III./St.G.77:- Stab II./KG76 became Stab III./St.G.77
- 4./KG76 became 7./St.G.77
- 5./KG76 became 8./St.G.77
- 6./KG76 became 9./St.G.77
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... and on I./StG 76:
Quote:
On 9.7.40 redesignated I./St.G.3:- Stab I./St.G.76 became Stab I./St.G.3
- 1./St.G.76 became 1./St.G.3
- 2./St.G.76 became 2./St.G.3
- 3./St.G.76 became 3./St.G.3
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Usually I trust Michael Holm blindly, but now I got three books claiming something completely different.
1.) "
BOMBER UNITS OF THE LUFTWAFFE 1933-1945: A Reference Source Volume 1" and
"BOMBER UNITS OF THE LUFTWAFFE 1933-1945: A Reference Source Volume 2" claim that II./KG 76 did not become III./StG 77 but was absorbed into III./KG 28, which - almost immediately - was renamed II./KG 76 again. I mean to me it wouldn't make much sense to convert a battle-hardened Kampfgruppe to a completely different role just like that. The renaming to another Kampfgruppe sounds a lot more reasonable to me.
2.)
"Ju 87 STUKA Volume 1: Luftwaffe Ju 87 Dive-Bomber Units - 1939-1941" claims that I./StG 76 did not become I./StG 3 but III./StG 77. That
could be possible since StG 76 was also using the F1 unit code and it is known that III./StG 77 continued to use it until early 1941.
So what the
Kark is correct here?
