KGr.z.b.V. Oels

KGr. z.b.V. Oels

Kampfgruppe z.b.V. Oels

(Unit Code: used factory codes)

Formation. (Nov 42)

Formed 19-25 February 1942 at Fp. Oels/27 km NE of Breslau using 9./KG z.b.V. 1 as cadre with additional aircraft and crews from FFS C 22 (Oels). The Gruppe was a provisional formation set up specifically for the Demyansk airlift operation, a massive effort to fly supplies to II. Armeekorps with 6 divisions totaling 95,000 men that had become encircled on 9 February when Soviet II Guards Rifle Corps cut the last German supply road and the encirclement of the Demyansk pocket was virtually completed. The official, formal start date of the Demyansk airlift was on 12 February. With airlift headquarters at Pskov, 15 transport groups were eventually assembled for the operation, many of the Ju 52s and other aircraft coming from hastily mobilized school assets as well as the active Transportgruppen.

North Russia. (Feb 42 - Apr 42)

26 Feb 42: arrived at Pskov-South.

31 Mar 42: now at Ostrov/50 km S of Pskov.

12 Apr 42: now at Kaunas/Lithuania - flying 20 sorties a day to Demyansk with refueling stops at Pskov-South.

15 Apr 42: staging its Demyansk supply flights through Korovye Selo/30 km N of Ostrov (which was the same as or practically adjacent to the airfield at Pskov-South).

19 Apr 42: KGr.z.b.V. Oels still operating Kaunas – Pskov-South - Demyansk and return.

20 Apr 42: disbanded on or about this date and all assets either incorporated into KGr.z.b.V. 500 or returned to FFS C 22 at Oels.

FpN:Gruppenstab and 1. – 4. Staffel (unknown)

Kommandeur:

Obstlt. Schweizer? (Feb 42 - Apr 42)?

Maj. Ludwig Beckmann? (Apr 42 - Apr 42)?

Also see:

(none found)

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

(1st Draft 2022)

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