Info about some of JG52's pilots ?

[rob van den nieuwendijk]

Hello all,

Try to get hold of Niko Fast's Das Jagdgeschwader 52, IV. Band. Here you will find the losses of JG 52 and Jahreserfolgsbericht 1943 of I./JG 52.

Regards,
Rob

[Jens]

Pawel referring to your homepage, did III/JG-52 move to Orel 14/7/43.

[yogybär]

- Lt Nikolaus Jeschonnek (relative of the LW's Chief of Staff ?)
Yes, he was a relative of the "big" Jeschonnek. IIRC, he was a pilot in II/JG52. At least there is a picture of him in Lipferts diary, but it is borrowed away atm.

[kolya1]

Many thanks,

Do you know if he was a close relative ?

I mean, General Hans Jeschonnek committed suicide less than two weeks after this pilot was killed, could this event have played a role in his decision ?

[rob van den nieuwendijk]

Hello Kolya1,

See: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Jeschonnek

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/...eschonnekH.htm

http://www.frontflieger.de/3-j-f.html

The reason for his suicide were other reasons.

Regards
Rob

[Jens]

Nikolaus Jeschonnek was his son IIRC. In fact Jeschonnek was an eyewitness of the air battle of Kursk, he also saw the desaster of soviet 2./17. air army at 5. 07. 43. Kursk (death of his son), Sicily and Hamburg were defeats for the Luftwaffe.

[yogybär]

Acc. to Lipfert's diary,
- Nikolaus jeschonnek was a nephew of the Lw's Generalstabschef and
- died during a bomb attack on JG52's AF in Anapa on 5.8.'43.

[kolya1]

Thank you both,

A quite close relative anyway, even if not a main motive of the general's suicide, that must not have raised his morale...

Besides that, could somebody indicate me a good source on JG51 (I'm mainly interested in the operations on the Eastern Front), and on the air war in the East in early 1945 ?

Thanks,

Kolya.