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Help identifing a Luftwaffe bomber unit
Wondering what Luftwaffe unit an He111 (1T + IK) would belong to ? Any clues ?
Thanks in advance oquaig |
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Re: Help identifing a Luftwaffe bomber unit
Kampfgruppe 126
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Re: Help identifing a Luftwaffe bomber unit
...which became I/KG 28 in Dec 40. This would be 2/KG 28
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Re: Help identifing a Luftwaffe bomber unit
So it did - and would!
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Re: Help identifing a Luftwaffe bomber unit
I believe some 8./KG 26 aircraft inherited from the defunct 2./KG 28 continued with the old code for some time including 1T+IK.
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Re: Help identifing a Luftwaffe bomber unit
Hi oquaig
Sorry I did not get a chance to post before today but here are scans of a Flugbuch from a man who flew in a Heinkel 111 coded 1T+IK against Middlesborough and Sunderland in October 1940. As you can see on the pages I labelled 6a and 6b, he has conveniently headed the 'kilometer' column in pencil with '2.KG126'. As the gentlemen suggest, this is 2. Staffel, Kampfgruppe 126, which is a unit that specialised in dropping sea mines. The entries in the remarks column read '2 LM.' for 2 Luftminen (air mines). At this time the unit was flying out of Wittmundhafen in northwest Germany. I include pages 7a and 7b just for completeness, as he has shown the full code 1T+IK here. If you have any details on this aircraft or unit, I would be interested to hear them.
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Best wishes Tim O. Looking for any information or documents relating to: Alfred Schmittka 5./KG 54; Josef Harmeling 4.(Schlacht)/LG 2; Wilhelm Gaul 1./106, 2./906 & III./KG 40; Karl Müller I./KG 2; Werner Breese 5.(F)/122 Last edited by Tim O.; 11th August 2016 at 22:36. |
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