I./KG27 & Stalingrad Air Supply

[Karsten]

7896
The date is wrong, must be 03.01.1943

11.01.1943
He 111 H-6 4./ KG 27 1G + FP 4553
Groundcontact in landing at Ptomnik 100%
Oltn. Albert Gropp 31.07.1915 +
Uffz. Josef Dischl 04.12.1918 +
Uffz. Herbert Klein 08.02.1920 WIA
Uffz. Ernst Lenniger 05.09.1921 +
Uffz. Ludwig Decker 25.04.1´922 WIA

13.01.1943
He 111 H-6 6./ KG 27 1G + GP 4948
Supplyflight for Stalingrad Crash short after Take-off in Nowotscherkassk 100%
Ofw. Herbert Thiele 08.08.1913 +
Uffz. Karl Larsen 08.07.1922 +
Uffz. Hans Tunger 14.04.1919 +
Uffz. Kutz Hichler 15.04.1920 +
Uffz. Erich Burger 19.07.1920 +


15.01.1943
He 111 H-6 5./ KG 27 1G + MN 4869 Rubeshnyj
Supplyflight to Stalingrad Crash after Fighter attack 100%
Oltn. hans Röbbing 15.06.1920 MIA
Ogfr. Fritz Gourlt 21.02.1918 MIA
Uffz. Kurt Baradoy 29.07.1919 MIA
Ofw. Erich Sommer 19.10.1913 MIA
Uffz. Heinz Witte 01.02.1917 MIA

17.01.1943
He 111 H-14 5./KG 27 7906
fighter attack, stating no possible, abandoners in Pitomnik 100%

18.01.1943
He 111 H-16 7./ KG 27 8207
Fighter attack 40% abandoned in Gumrak

20.01.1943
He 111 H-6 1./ KG 27
Belly Laning 40% Abandoned in Gumrak

22.01.1943
He 111 H-6 4./ KG 27 1G + JM 7870
Force landing in Gumrak 25%
Abandoned

23.10.1943
He 111 H-6 1./ KG 27 1G + HU 7360
Crash short before landing in Nowotscherkassk 100%
Oltn. Johann Herzog 17.11.1920 +
Uffz. Georg Zwink 10.05.1919 +
Uffz. Richard Fink 05.05.1917 +
Ogfr. helmut Bellmann 15.04.1921 +
Ofw. Willi Zimmermann 17.01.1916 +

24.01.1943
He 111 H-16 9./ KG 27 1G + FT 8192
AA-fire 30%, Landing in Nowotscherkassk
FF Oltn Günther Schuldt 03.08.1920 WIA
Ogfr. Helmut Voß 19.01.1921
Ogfr. Moser
Oltn. Schuldt came to Lazarett Lw 7/ IV in Taganrog and commits suicide 18.01.1943

24.01.1943
He 111 H-16 8./ KG 27 1G + BS 8220
Supply Flight to Stalingrad AA-Fire 40%
Fw Frank
Fw. Heinz Nowak
Uffz. Tillberg
Uffz. Juhre

Regards Rüdiger

[Brian Bines]

Rudiger, thanks for putting these on a big help with my list, giving details that are hard to read on GQM.
As regards books on Stalingrad has anybody read 'Fighters over Stalingrad vol.1' and does it contain loss lists ? I believe Vol.2 will cover the Airlift is there a date of when it will be published,

Brian Bines

[Richard Mills]

Rudiger

Thank you very much indeed for the additional information concerning these losses, the detail is much appreciated.

Brian

With regards to 'Fighters Over Stalingrad' Vol 1, without any reviews posted on Amazon (or indeed anywhere else that I can find) is the book worth having from both the Russian and German perspective? or is it mainly from the Russian viewpoint?

Regards Richard.

[Nikita Egorov]

It is difficult to find the review of the book that has not been released yet.
The book will stick more to the perspective of fighters activities, both Soviet and German, as it is announced in the title. It will contain complete (I hope)loss list for Germans, with some corrections from Soviet side documents and loss list of Soviet fighters, more than 1200 entries.

[Richard Mills]

Nikita, I will certainly be purchasing a copy of the book upon release, thank you for the information.

In my haste I had the impression it had be released already!

Regards Richard.

[Brian Bines]

Nikita for vol.1 Amazon has 'Temporarily out of stock' so assumed the book had been available, could you advise when it will be coming out please,

Thanks

Brian Bines

[Nikita Egorov]

Richard and Brian,

I hope to hand over the manuscript by the end of the year. This is all I can advise by now.

As regards to one of the He-111 in question, namely w.n. 4883. Its pilot Uffz. Kahler got captured. He told that the mission was to supply surrounded troops in Sidorovskiy area. That means he flew not to Stalingrad cauldron. Plane was shot down by AA fire in Kantemirovka area. Kahler bailed out, others perished.

[Brian Bines]

Thanks Nikita, look foward to getting your books when they come out,

Cheers

Brian Bines

[Richard Mills]

In dotting the 'I's etc on this research piece.

Does anyone know who held the position of Staka 3./Kampfgeschwader 27 "Boelcke" during the Stalingrad air-lift period of operations?

As always, the information will be gratefully received.

Regards Richard.

[Doug Stankey]

This is out of commanders compilation from about a decade ago, so it is a bit questionable:
Stakas of 3./KG 27:
Hptm. Joachim Petzold (DKG) (21.05.42 - 22.11.42).
Hptm. Fritz Zollweg (22.11.42 - 31.07.43).

While books about the Stalingrad airlift have be few, but about to be released are:

To Save An Army: The Stalingrad Airlift Hardcover – November 8, 2022 by Robert Forsyth

and
Hitlers Air Bridges: the Luftwaffe's Supply Operations of the Second World War by Degtev Dmitry and Zubov Dmitry.
https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/h...526789938.html

both in English!!

And mainly about personnel, has many many details of various air supply ops:

Möbius Ingo; Jürgen Huss Stille Adler - Die Ritterkreuzträger der Transportflieger 1940 - 1945 (Chemnitz:Westermann Druck Zwickau, 2019). ISBN: 978-3-9821020-0-9.

Much new material to chew on.