Transportfliegerführer 2
Transportfliegerführer 2
(FpN: L 52935)
Transportfliegerführer:
Oberst Dr. Ernst Kühl, acting (Nov 42 - Feb 43)
Oberst Adolf Jäckel (Feb 43 - May 43)
Gen.Maj. Friedrich-Wilhelm Morzik (May 43 - Jul 44)
Formation. (Nov 42)
Formed around late November 1942[1] at Tatsinskaya airfield to the west of Stalingrad to control Ju 52 transport formations being assembled to airlift supplies to the surrounded 6. Armee (6th Army). Initially subordinated to VIII. Fliegerkorps.[2]
South Russia. (Nov 42 - 1944)
Occupied by the Stalingrad airlift to February 1943.
3 Mar 43: a Ju 52 assigned to the Stab was damaged taxiing at Fp.Kherson in South Ukraine, 30%.[3]
Mar – Dec 43: where the Stab went after March 1943 is not known. There is some indication that
it was temporarily inactivated and then reactivated on 21 April 1943 by renaming Lufttransportführer Mittelmeer (see there).
10 Jan 44: Stab/Transportfliegerführer 2 at Odessa/Ukraine.[4]
15 May 44: Stab at Focşani/Romania.[5]
France. (1944)
Jun 44: believed to have remained in the East and then ordered to France shortly after the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June.
18 Jul 44: Transport-Fliegerführer 2 stationed in Debrecen/Hungary.[6]
22 Aug 44: Stab at Nancy - ordered disbanded this date by Luftflotte 10.[7]
Links
Transportfliegerführer and Lufttransportführer
Lufttransportführer beim Gen.Qu. (Ob.d.L.)
Lufttransportführer I (Südost)
Lufttransportführer Mittelmeer
© H.L. deZeng IV, 2023
References
- ↑ another source states 21 April 1943, see Lufttransportführer Mittelmeer
- ↑ G.Tessin-Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939-1945, Teil 14: Die Luftstreitkräfte (Osnabrück, 1980).
- ↑ BA-MA Freiburg: RL 2 III Meldungen über Flugzeugunfälle…..(Loss Reports – LRs).
- ↑ PRO London: AIR 40/1979.
- ↑ BNA HW 5/485.
- ↑ BNA HW 5/540.
- ↑ PRO London: DEFE 3 ULTRA signals; G.Tessin-op.cit.
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