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Operation Bienenstock
Gentlemen,
Not much was known about Operation Bienenstock (Beehive) which was commanded by Oberst Hajo Herrmann. This idea was to attack Allied aircraft by Luftwaffe sabotage operations against airfields using explosive or the Panzerfaust. I want to know about the actions and successes against airfields on April and May of 1945 please. I know the missions of Operation Bienenstock against Allied and Soviet targets were incomplete. There is no complete book about Operation Bienenstock. Help please. Edward L. Hsiao |
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Re: Operation Bienenstock
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If you download and read through the ULTRA files from April–May 1945 from the UK National Archives (files DEFE 3/561–572) you will find a few messages about these operations, for example: DEFE3/568Other relevant messages whose serial numbers I noted down are KO 1543 (DEFE 3/571); KO 1822, 1860, 1877, 1896 and 1988 (all DEFE 3/572) Dr. Fritz Marktscheffel, who died recently (see obituaries) was probably the person who did the most research into this topic. |
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Hajo was now placed onto the Reserve and was posted to Königsberg waiting for a job to be given to him which turned out to be going to Hungary to list those German troops retreating through that country. However, in November 1944, he was recalled to Berlin by General Dietrich Peltz, another highly experienced bomber pilot and who now commanded IX Fliegerkorps and under whom bomber units were now converting to jet fighters in the hope that this would make a difference. Hajo went to the staff of II Fliegerkorps and in January 1945, he took command of 9 Fliegerdivision in Prague. However, it was too little too late and with reducing numbers of pilots and aircraft and almost total Allied air superiority, he was forced to conceive the idea of pilots ramming Allied aircraft as a last ditch effort-the so called Sonderkommando Elbe. Finally, he is believed to have formed Sonderkommando Totenkopf or Bienenstock (Deaths head or Beehive) around April 14 1945 which was manned by volunteers from the Army and Luftwaffe and believed to have been commanded by experienced former Legion Condor and Battle of Britain bomber pilot and Ritterkreuz winner Major Otto Köhnke. Operations were to be carried out behind Allied lines by personnel armed mainly with Panzerfaust anti-tank rockets and on April 25, 1945, ten aircraft each with two crew were tasked to attack supplies, tanks and bridges in the Rottweil/Tuttlingen areas in southern Germany; five took off and four returned (and of those two of them were damaged).The following day nine took off to attack similar targets in the Dillingen area-a bridge at Günsberg was confirmed destroyed but five aircraft failed to return. The final mission took place on April 29, 1945; three aircraft took off and none returned.
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Best Regards Andy Mitchell LuftwaffeData Wiki including the history of Aufklgr. 122 |
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Re: Operation Bienenstock
Thank you for replies guys.
Edward L. Hsiao |
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Re: Operation Bienenstock
Gentlemen,
Before Operation Bienenstock took place,were there any attempts by the Luftwaffe to send in their commandos in blowing up airfields and four-engined planes of USAAF in Italy or other places like in late 1944 or early 1945? Edward L. Hsiao |
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