3.(Ausb.-u.Verb.)/127
3.(Ausb.-u.Verb.)/Aufkl.Gr. 127
(Unit Code 6R+)
Formation. (April 1943)
Formed 1 April 1943 at Tallinn-Ulemiste/Estonia (new) as a training and liaison Staffel with Heinkel He 50 biplanes flown by Estonian volunteers.[1]
North Russia, Estonia and Leningrad Front. (April 1943 - October 1943)
April – October 1943: the main body of the Staffel is believed to have remained at TallinnUlemiste, but elements are said to have been sent to the front area from summer 1943 and used primarily in the night harassment/nuisance attack role alongside 2./Aufkl.Gr. 127, this being increasingly the case after the training school was moved to Liepaja (Libau)/Latvia in August 1943.
10 June 1943: He 60 flipped over on landing at Tallinn-Ulemiste, 90%, 2 injured.
18 October 1943: renamed 2./Nachtschlachtgruppe 11, probably at Pskov-West.
FpN:3./Aufkl.Gr. 127 (L 55956).
Staffelkapitän:
Hptm. Karl Roovet (1 April 1943 - 18 October 1943)
Also see:
BODECK, ? , Lt.
COLLING, ? , Lt.
GAUL, Eberhard, Lt.
HEINZ, Karl, Lt.
SCHULTZE-PLOTZIUS, Jörg, Lt.
STEINBORN, ? , Lt.
© by Henry L. deZeng IV (Work in Progress).
(1st Draft 2022)
References
- ↑ W.Dierich - Die Verbände der Luftwaffe 1935-1945: Gliederungen und Kurzchroniken – Eine Dokumentation; G.Tessin - Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939-1945, Teil 14: Die Luftstreitkräfte (Osnabrück, 1980); N.Kannapin - Die deutsche Feldpostübersicht 1939-1945. 3 Bde (I – III) (Osnabrück, 1980-82); NARA WashDC: RG 242 (T-311 AOK 18 Ia/Ic records); BA-MA Freiburg: RL 2 III Meldungen über Flugzeugunfälle…..(Loss Reports – LRs); F.Gerdessen – “Estonian Air Power”, in: Air Enthusiast No.18, pp.74-76; R.Milk – “Estonian Flyers” (unpublished manuscript), 7 pages; D.Littlejohn – Foreign Legions of the Third Reich, vol.4, pp.150-52; K.Köhler et al – “Der Einsatz der Luftwaffe im Bereich der Heeresgruppe Nord von Ende Juni bis Mitte Oktober 1944”, in Meier-Welcker, Hans (ed.), Abwehrkämpfe am Nordflügel der Ostfront 1944-1945 (Stuttgart, 1963).