Eastern-Front Transporter losses - need help !!!

[Doug Stankey]

We have no information about the losses but here’s what we have on these guys:

INGENHOVEN, Peter.
Date of birth: 16.12.94.
1937 Hptm., appt Kdr. KGr. z.b.V. 1? (to 30.09.37).
09.04.40 Hptm., appt Kdr. KGr.z.b.V. 103 (to 05.05.40).
11.05.40 Hptm.d.R., awarded Ritterkreuz, acting Kdr. KGr.z.b.V. 103.
05.40 Hptm., appt Staka 3./KGr.z.b.V. 106.
22.08.41 Maj., appt Kdr. I./LLG 1.
c.16.12.41 Maj., appt Kdr. KGr.z.b.V. 900 (to 01.02.42 †).

Replaced by :
Maj. Hans-Joachim Bittner.

The unit at about this time was apparently based at Sverevo 85 km south-east of Voroshilovgrad.
31.01.43 KGr.z.b.V. 900 was ordered to transfer without aircraft to Münster-Handorf to rest, refit and re-quip
(no date) Gruppe’s personnel were then ordered to either Leipheim /south Germany or Regensburg-Obertraubling to begin conversion training on the Me 323 6-engine transport




KRÄUSSEL, Oskar.
Date of birth: 18.06.13.
04.08.42 Fw., awarded DKG, 2./KGr.z.b.V. 9.
24.12.42 Fw., awarded Ritterkreuz, KG.z.b.V. 172.
06.03.43 KIA.

around mid-February 1943 KG.r.z.b.V. 172 was assigned to the Kuban airlift into North Caucasia, particularly the Taman Peninsula.
07.03.43: 2 Ju 52 accidents reported at airfield of Mariupol/SE Ukraine.