Kommando Bienenstock - Letzter Einsatz der Luftwaffe 1945

[Rudi Penker]

https://www.sound-bm.com/de/allgemei...affe-1945.html

[edwest2]

Translated by Google:


The "Beehive Command" can undoubtedly be described as one of the last commandos of the German Air Force in World War II. But even before that, the desperate actions of the “Elbe Command” - also referred to in the literature as the “Elbe Ramming Command” - attempted to compensate for the material inferiority of the German Air Force in the final phase of the Second World War by ramming the Allied bombers into the Air should be brought down. Even if the German pilots had only a slim chance of survival, there was deliberately no mention of a self-sacrifice at the time. Of the approximately 2,000 volunteers who signed up for such missions, 300 were selected for the missions. This action was also initiated by the Air Force officer Colonel Hajo Herrmann.


A significant number of the volunteers who were not deployed found a job for the "Beehive Command". The task of the predominantly young pilots was to attack enemy tank columns with light aircraft, predominantly Bücker Bü 181, with bazookas attached to their wings. But other actions were also planned. For example, Allied airfields were to be attacked on the Italian peninsula, whereby the fuel of the machines would only have been enough for the outward flight. Furthermore, inter alia Sabotage operations carried out as far as Hungary. Thanks to the archive of the late Dr. Fritz Marktscheffel, who had archived documents about this forgotten chapter of World War II at an early stage, the author of this publication succeeded in conveying this chapter to the reader in an entertaining but secure document.