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Old 11th September 2021, 22:02
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SG-5 & Gliders

Good evening all. I have a Wehrpass to a fully qualified military glider pilot (qualified April 1943 for the DFS-230 having been in training since February 1942). I am trying to unravel where he went and what he did but what seems strange is that after he qualified as a glider pilot he was assigned to Erg.Staffel/StG-5 and then 3./StG-5 for a year and was with them when they relocated to Dno under 3.Flieger-Division as SG-5.

In Dive Bomber & Ground Attack Units of the Luftwaffe vol 2 (Larry de Zeng & Douglas Stankey) it does state that I/SG-5 acquired 14 DFS gliders but they were off the books, having been left behind by LLG-1 but the date given in the book is 21st October 1943 while this glider pilot joined StG-5 in May 1943.
Does anyone have other examples of a glider pilot being assigned to a non-glider unit and if this pilot had been assigned to SG-5 because of these gliders, is there any information of their use while the unit was operating from Dno as it seems strange that a specialist glider pilot would be sent to a ground attack unit for 12 months?
After SG-5 he was assigned to FFS-A 61 for 2 months and then assigned to 6./KG-200 for 2 months late in 1944.
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