IV./TG 3

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IV./TG 3


Formation. (May 43)

Formed 1 May 1943 at Fp. Capua/30 km NNW of Naples with a Gruppenstab and 13. – 16. Staffel by renaming KGr.z.b.V. 172. Equipped with Ju 52 transports.[1]


Italy and Germany. (May 43 - c. Sep 44)

1 May 43: Ju 52 hit the ground and crashed at Porto Farina, 100%, 1 killed and 2 injured.[2]

2 May 43: Ju 52 (4V+KT) reported missing on flight from Naples-Capodichino and Tunis, 100%, 5 MIA.

4 May 43: Ju 52 reported missing on flight from Naples-Capodichino and Tunis, 100%, 2 KIA, 1 MIA and 1 WIA.

6 May 43: Ju 52 (4V+DT) reported missing in the Tunis area, 100%, 4 captured. This aircraft was on a night flight from Capua to Tunis with 1,800 liters of gasoline aboard when it lost its radio navigation bearing and was forced to ditch off the Tunisian coast. The crew was picked up by a British freighter.

6 May 43: Ju 52 crashed while taking off from Ponticelli, 100%, 3 crew killed, 1 injured, plus 1 passenger killed.

7 May 43: 3 Ju 52s bombed and strafed on the ground at Tunis, all 100%.

7 May 43: Ju 52 (4V+KU) shot down by a fighter at Galaat al Andeles, 100%, 4 MIA.

11 May 43: Ju 52 (4V+BW) reported missing on flight between Castel Vetrano/Sicily and Tunis, 100%, 5 MIA.

21 May 43: Ju 52 crashed SW of Porto Vecchio due to engine failure, 100%, crew safe.

24 May 43: 2 Ju 52s shot down over Sardinia, 100%, 7 KIA and 2 WIA.

6 Jun 43: Ju 52 shot down into the sea in Pl.Qu. 12114, 100%, 1 KIA.

15 Jun 43: Ju 52 crashed at Fp. Villacidro/Sardinia due to engine failure, 100%, 3 injured.

26 Jun 43: still based at Fp. Capua.[3]

28 Jun 43: Ju 52 bombed on the ground at Fp. Venafiorita (a.k.a. Olbia/Sardinia), 60%.

3 Jul 43: Ju 52 bombed on the ground at Fp. Trapani/Sicily, 90%.

18 Jul 43: Ju 52 crash landed at Lago Pergusa, 100%, crew safe.

1 Aug 43: 2 Ju 52s bombed on the ground at Fp. Naples-Capodichino, 100% and 20%.

4 Aug 43: Ju 52 force landed SE of Viterbo/68 km NW of Rome due to engine failure, 20%.

25 Aug 43: Ju 52 shot down by a fighter west of Venosa, 100%, 4 KIA.

Sep 43: at Siena and Gallarate.

8 Oct 43: ordered to depart Italy and transfer to Diepholz, but to remain in place until retraining on the SM 82 is completed.[4]

Oct – Dec 43: at Fp. Gallarate/37 km NW of Milano in northwest Italy converting to the Italian SM 82 transport. A Gruppe strength return for 25 Nov 43 shows 29(22) transports assigned to the Gruppe but a total strength in aircraft of 108 x SM 82s, 10 x SM 75s, 17 x SM 81s, 10 x G 12s, 1 x BR 20, 1 x SM 84, 1 x CA 312, 1 x Fi 156, 1 x W 34 and 1 unidentified aircraft. According to German accounts, this process was carried over into 1944 with the Gruppe moving to Goslar in North Germany, but it apparently was never completed. It can be surmised that there were not enough serviceable SM 82s to go around, or there was a spare parts problem or such. Italian records, on the other hand, state that IV./TG 3 handed over all of its SM 82s to the just-formed TGr. 110 (Ital.) at Bergamo – Orio al Serio in April 1944 and then departed Italy for Goslar without aircraft. This seems like the more logical explanation. No information for 1944 has been found for IV./TG 3 aside from the fact that it is not known to have a Gruppenkommandeur after mid-May 1944 and was officially disbanded at Celle in September 1944 with its Feldpostnummber deleted on 9 Oct 44.[5]



FpNs:Gruppenstab and 13. – 16. Staffel (L 09727)



Kommandeur:

Maj. Erich Zähr (R, DKG) (1 May 43 - 23 Jun 43)

Obstlt. Josef Kögl (23 Jun 43 - May 44?)



Also see:

DIESEM, Rudolf, Oblt.

DIESENBERG, Eduard Walter Ferdinand?, Oblt.

EHRHARDT, Fridemar (Sophus? Freiherr von?), Oblt./Hptm.

GROSSE, ? , Hptm.

JASCHINSKI, Erich, Ofw. (R, DKG). Pilot.

PÄTZOLD, Gottfried, Lt. WIA.

PETERS, ? , Oblt.

PRITTWITZ und GAFFRON, Hans-Henning von, Oblt. (Staka 3./SG 4). KIA as passenger.

STEFFEN, ? , Lt.

WEISE, Hans-Joachim, Oblt.

ZIEGLER, Armin, Oblt.



© by Henry L. deZeng IV (Work in Progress, 2022).

(1st Draft 2022)


References

  1. ↑ G.Tessin-Verbände und Truppen der Deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS 1939-1945 - Teil 14: Die Luftstreitkräfte; AFHRA Maxwell: decimal 512.619 British AirMin CSDIC P/W Interrogation Reports in microfilm rolls A5415-18, interrogation CSDIC A.18.
  2. ↑ BA-MA Freiburg: RL 2 III Meldungen über Flugzeugunfälle…..(Loss Reports – LRs).
  3. ↑ PRO London: DEFE 3 ULTRA signal ML5181.
  4. ↑ BNA HW 5/371.
  5. ↑ ULTRA signals (numbers not recorded); British Air Ministry intelligence reports from PRO AIR 40; BNA HW 5/401; G.Tessin-op cit.


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