Rechlin - Aircraft Crash 1943: 2 Questions

[hucks216]

Originally Posted by RT

The very clever answer of John, has given you the why for Russia , seems you missed it...
Rémi

Aye, I was busy typing my other post and after submitting it noticed that John had kindly answered the crash/burial question.

As for 15./KG 6 - taken from Bomber Units Of The Luftwaffe vol 1:
Formation; testing; re-designation (August 1942 - April 1943) Formed at Chatres, France, from Erprobungskommando 17 with He-111 to develop and test new pathfinding and target marking methods.....renamed Stab I and 1./KG 66 at Chatres (30th April 1943).

As he served in 7./KG 26 during the time when III/KG 26 were retrained as pathfinders it would make sense if he was part of a pathfinding trials team from Rechlin (maybe his 2 years at Rechlin were centered around various pathfinding & target marking trials.)

[hucks216]

He flew on numerous operational flights from the start of the war with 6./KG 3 and then with 1./KG 28 from November 1939 and then from 16th March 1940 to 11th June 1941 with 7./KG 26. After that he went on a course and was then assigned to the Technisches Btl at Rechlin from 28th June 1941 to his death on the 10th August 1943. The last operation flight date entered in the campaign pages of the Wehrpass is for 11th June 1941.

[hucks216]

Thanks to Larry de Zeng who has provided me with some great information, including that Oberfeldwebel Alfred Noetzel, Technisches Bataillon Rechlin, worked in Amt E4 (Navigations-und Funkgerät) at Rechlin. He installed and tested airborne electronic navigation and radio equipment. Technical personnel from Amt E4 were back and forth all the time between Rechlin and 15./KG 6 and later KG 66.

[hucks216]

In relation to this wehrpass does anyone have any idea what unit 3.L.P.F Tilsit is (as seen on the attached scan)? It is an entry dated for 1934/35 and he was there for 6 months.

[RT]

Is there anything said about his tour in Stalingrad, if for transport proved that at the time they need every man even those with the greatest experience in other fields, if for nav. purpose quite new news

Rémi

[hucks216]

Originally Posted by RT

Is there anything said about his tour in Stalingrad, if for transport proved that at the time they need every man even those with the greatest experience in other fields, if for nav. purpose quite new news

Rémi

I haven't been able to find anything out so far. The listings in his campaign pages only go up to June 1941 so that is a dead end with regards to Stalingrad. Maybe he was one of those not used?

[hucks216]

I have been have to find out what 3.L.P.F is, except that it isn't L.P.F but L.P.H = Landespolizei Hundertschaft.