Our EoE Project to list all Luft unit leaders in combat & combat support units down to the Sta Kap level for the 1939-40 war period

[Larry Hickey]

Hello,

While I'm posting on map research problems, I'd like to introduce another area that we're attempting to research for the EoE Project.

Using a similar pattern to that used by the Prien team for the JFV books, we want to list the leadership of each Luftwaffe combat or combat support unit during the 1939-40 war period, including maritime, recon, liaison and transport, down to the Sta Kap level. Not only do we need the names of each officer, but also the dates of service in the respective command position. We already have that information for the Polish Campaign via the Marius Emmerling books for fighter, Zerstorer, bomber and Stuka units, but not recon maritime or transport units. For the latter we're using KTBs, FB, published unit histories, the Luft Officer's Career Summ DB., etc., to try and fill in the information for these units. For the first day of the war, some of these units at the Sta Kap level are cited in Ulf Balke's "Der Lufkrieg im Europa," Vol. 1, as well. For this period and the rest of the 1939-40 war period, we already have this data from the Prien JFV books for all the day fighter units, although there are a small number of cases where this information was missing at the time of publication of these sources. Hopefully we can fill in these gaps. But we'll need the same for all the rest of the Luftwaffe units, which is a very large task. I have all of the German published unit histories that have some of this information, but these are often incomplete and some contain inaccuracies. If anyone already has data to help us fill in the rest of the Luftwaffe units, corrections to the sources I've mentioned above, or know of any comprehensive sources that might provide such information, I'd very much appreciate being notified.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Larry Hickey
EoE Project Coordinator