Grossraumtransportstaffel Ju 352
Grossraumtransportstaffel Ju 352
(Unit Code: N1+)
Formation. (Jan 45)
Formed 30 January 1945 at Berlin-Schönwalde from elements of 13. and 15./TG 4. Equipped with large-capacity Ju 352 transports, of which the Luftwaffe only had a few.[1]
Germany. (Feb 45)
Feb 45: Staffel assigned to transport munitions and medical supplies to the Eastern Front and evacuate wounded and refugees (women, children and the elderly) from East and West Prussia, sometimes packing as many as 70 passengers into each Ju 352. The majority of flights were to Heiligenbeil near Königsberg.
16 Feb 45: Ju 352 A-1 damaged taxiing at Vietzkerstrand (Wicko Morskie)/on the Baltic 27 km WNW of Stolp (Slupsk) in Pomerania, 40%.
19 Feb 45: Ju 352 A-1 shot down into the Baltic near Pillau/East Prussia - no details, 100%. German torpedo boats rescued the crew.
24-28 Feb 45: renamed Grossraumtransportgruppe at Berlin-Schönwalde (see there).
FpN:(none assigned)
Kommandeur:
Oblt. Franz Lankenau (30 Jan 45 - c. 29 Apr 45)
Maj. Günter Mauss (30 Apr 45 - 8 May 45)
Also see:
(No additional names found)
© by Henry L. deZeng IV (Work in Progress, 2022).
(1st Draft 2022)
References
- ↑ BA-MA Freiburg: Signatur RL 2 III/66 via N.Beale letter to H.L.deZeng dated 14 July 1991; M.Griehl article in Flugzeug magazine, Heft (issue) 1/1994; H.Bukowski/C.Trilus-Fliegerhorst Schönwalde/Berlin: Ausbildungs-und Erprobungsstätte der Luftwaffe 1935-1945:85, 131-33.
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