informations about Lw. Baugeräte Zug

[Larry deZeng]

Hi Obblgang,

The "c" is for "circa" (approximately auf Englisch, etwa auf Deutsch).

I have no information on the location of 3/VIII before 10.41, but an educated guess would be that it helped build forward airfields between Warsaw and the eastern border with the UdSSR from 01.41 to 07.41 and then moved forward through Belorussia to the Smolensk - Roslav'l area. There were a very large number of Lw.-Bau-Btle. and Bau-Gerätezüge used for this purpose and 3/VIII was probably one of them.

I do not know which Bau-Btle. 3/VIII was attached to, if any. They were independent and were sent where needed, sometimes staying in one place for only a week or two. I strongly doubt if you will find any books that mention the many Lw.-Bau-Btle. and Lw.-Bau-Gerätezüge employed along that sector of the front in 1941. My information all comes from old documents in the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv in Freiburg im Breisgau, Signatur RL 20 (Kdo. Flughafenbereiche). The very first mention of 3/VIII is 10.41.

L.