I am trying to make Helmut Lent his role as a manager of a Gruppe, Staffel and Geschwader a little bit clearer. Information about this subject seems to be very very rare. Not only in Lent' s case, but also with the much more illustrious Mölders or Galland.
I have problems to find infos regarding the manning level of a NJG. The following information is collected from various web sites (sorry couldn' t find descriptive literature):
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Geschwader
100-120 aircraft
1000-1500 men air and ground crew.
Gruppe (3 (1939-1943) and sometimes 4 (1943-1945))
65-70 aircraft each
35-150 aircrew
300-500 ground crew each.
Staffel
12-16 aircraft
? aircrew
? ground crew each.
Bf110
2 to 3 men aircrew
5 ground crew ?
Ju88
3 to 4 men aircrew
5 groundcrew ?
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Got the numbers from a bunch of websites. Really, each website operates with different values. As you can see from my list the values don' t work.
I am also missing the personnel for administration, medic, logistics units and anything else what "made" a NJG.
I would be very kind if somebody could serve me with some more realistic values. Don' t need that for 100%, but it should be more or less realistic. Thanks.