Losses Supply Stalingrad

[Brian Bines]

Rudiger and Andreas - Having found the list of Stalingrad airlift losses I compliled some time ago I had a total of 494 aicraft lost/damaged. However this includes aircraft from the Bomber units some of which could have been on either a bombing or a supply mission. Difficulty reading of the GQM reports meant some crash locations given were either unreadable or not traced on current maps so I could not be certain if all were lost on supply flights. As regards the Tatsinskaya losses for the 24th. Dec. I had two Transports colliding in the air over the airfield, two crashing on the airfield, one fell into enemy hands, ten lost in the attack, twelve lost to enemy tanks infantry or bombing and two as destroyed by own troops. In addition two Kl 35s of KGr z.b.V 50 are shown as falling into enemy hands. From the start of the airlift some 15 aircraft had been damaged around the airfield which if still there on the 24th Dec. may have been included in the reported Soviet claim of 70 Transports? destroyed.
I cannot be a 100% certain of the accuracy of the above due to the quality of the GQM records I have , so please consider these as a guidance, I hope they are of some help,

Regards

Brian Bines