Kampffliegerführer Mittelmeer
Kampffliegerführer Mittelmeer
(FpN: L 18818)
Kampffliegerführer:
Oberst Dietrich Peltz (Jun 43 - Aug 43)
Oberst Walter Storp (Aug 43 - Oct 43)
Formation and History. (Jun 43 - Oct 43)
Formed o/a mid-June 1943 at Grottaferrata near Rome-Frascati (headquarters Luftflotte 2) to command and control all bomber operations in the Central Mediterranean under Luftflotte 2. Main forces consisted of all or elements of LG 1, KG 6, KG 26, KG 54, KG 76, KG 77 and KG 100, which flew attacks on Allied convoys, North African ports and harbours, invasion shipping off Sicily, harbours and airfields on Malta, and the landings at Salerno/South Italy during September. Nearly all of these operations were staged at night. Additionally, the Stab was responsible for planning and directing intense training for replacement crews carried out at a number of airfields in North Italy. The Stab was disbanded in October 1943 after the Allies had become firmly entrenched in South Italy and the Germans decided to focus their bomber forces elsewhere.[1]
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References
- ↑ K.Gundelach-Die deutsche Luftwaffe im Mittelmeer 1940-1945; S.Radtke-Kampfgeschwader 54: von der Ju 52 zur Me 262 - Eine Chronik nach Kriegstagebüchern, Dokumenten und Berichten 1935 – 1945:181, 193; MGFA Freiburg: Storp, Walter, "Kampfgeschwader 6", unpub. manuscript, Goslar, 22 Nov 1972, 12 pages; ULTRA signals and numerous CSDIC P/W interrogations.