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Travel between Königsberg nd Helsinski
In july nd august were flown a big qty of flights between these 2 destination, which unit was in charge of them ???
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Re: Travel between Königsberg nd Helsinski
Salut!
What year? Mr. Salonen should be able to answer your question if I can't (my computer with data is still kaputt). BTW "big qty" is how much per day/week? Kari |
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Re: Travel between Königsberg nd Helsinski
Year is , sorry, 1941, Kari, seems half to a dozen flights per week occured , maybe more occured, KGzbv106 on the list, but could be also some ad-hoc unit.
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Re: Travel between Königsberg nd Helsinski
Salut Rémi!
The period June-July 1941 is difficult from archive document perspective. Finnish flight logs etc. do not really start recording aircraft codes until late 1942. For year 1941 there may not be Air Observation logs at all surviving. At least I have not seen one yet. There was some sort of reorganization in the Air Observation in Spring 1942 which may be the explanation for the situation. About flying activity. I would expect half dozen or more transport flights per day if a Luftwaffe unit was transferring. At least that is what I remember from Summer 1944 situation (Commando Kuhlmey activity). Half of dozen per week is more like routine supply activity. Hannu Valtonen mentions 2./K.Gr.z.b.V 108 planes based at Pori at the beginning of war (June 1941) and later also at Malmi in his book Luftwaffe Pictorial (In Finnish, page 165). I guess the transport flight activity was related to KGr 806 actions over Estonia and Gulf of Finland. Hope this helps some, Kari |
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Re: Travel between Königsberg nd Helsinski
KGr.806, is probably high as a cause of that activity , the place choosed Königsberg probably because the less distand from Finnland as pointed by Matti.
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Luftwaffe transfer flight accidents?
This relates to research I'm doing on Luftwaffe accident records and non-combat flying. Ernst Stilla, in his PhD thesis, wrote about very high accident rates "on transfer flights." Galland apparently tried to crack down on them.
I'll give the translated version (needs work!) and then the original German. The numbers refer to Stilla's footnotes. Does anyone have data on specific transfers and accidents, or overall accident rates? Thanks much. Roger Bohn Quote:
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Entscheidende Einflussgrößen bei der Niederlage der Luftwaffe im Abwehrkampf im Westen und über Deutschland im Zweiten Weltkrieg unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Faktoren „Luftrüstung“, „Forschung und Entwicklung“ und „Human Ressourcen“. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der Philosophischen Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn vorgelegt von Ernst Stilla aus Bukarest Translation by Carola Betzold; edits by me. |
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