Seenotflottille 80
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Seenotflottille 80
Formation and History. (Aug 44 - May 45)
Ordered formed 19 August 1944 at Wilhelmshaven by renaming Seenotflottille 5. Belonged to Seenotgruppe 80. Identified at Norderney in the West Frisian Islands in November 1944, but this may have only been a Kdo. (detachment) belonging to it. Surrendered at Großenbrode on 8 May 1945.[1]
FpN: (L 61742)
Führer: Maj. Alfred Majewski (Nov 44 - 8 May 45)
© H.L. deZeng IV, 2024
References
- ↑ AFHRA Maxwell: decimal K113 Karlsruhe Collection, unpublished manuscript “Geschichte d. Seenotdienst 1939-45”; PRO London: AIR 40 Air Ministry intelligence documents, A.I.3.(E) intelligence study “Organisation of the Air/Sea Rescue Service in the G.A.F.” dated 31.1.1944 with later supplements; PRO London: AIR 40 Air Ministry intelligence documents; BA-MA Freiburg: RL 2 III Meldungen über Flugzeugunfälle…..(Loss Reports – LRs); BA-MA RL 9/35; NARA WashDC: RG 242/T-311 roll 179, frame 688; T-321 roll 53, frames 003ff; W.Dierich-VdL:283-97; D.Jung/B.Wenzel/A.Abendroth-Die Schiffe und Boote der deutschen Seeflieger 1912-1976:191-98; J-L.Roba/C.Crãciunoiu-Seaplanes Over the Black Sea: German-Romanian Operations 1941-1944:66 et seq; N.Kannapin-Feldpostübersicht; Luftwaffen-Revue magazine, Heft (issue) 4/1990:82.
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