Koflug 3/XII
c. September 1941 - Formed at Langendiebach under Luftgaukdo. XII and remained there until the beginning of 1942.
20 Mar 1942 - transferred from Langendiebach to Lisieux/43 km E of Caen in NW France to take over for Koflug 5/XIII, which had been ordered to North Africa.
May – Jun 1942 - departed Lisieux and transferred to South Russia as part of the large buildup for the summer offensive toward Stalingrad and into North Caucasia.
20 Aug 1942 - at Tatsinskaya to the west of Stalingrad.
2 Nov 1942 - now at Rostov under Luftgaukdo. Rostow.
Feb 1943 - retreating via Taganrog.
4 Mar 1943 - at Krivoy Rog/C Ukraine, but temporarily surplus and in reserve pending assignment following the German withdrawal from the Rostov area.
Apr – Aug 1943 - not identified, but probably remained in Ukraine until July or August.
14 Sep 1943 - identified at Kruševac/Serbia under Feldluftgaukommando XXX/Lw.-Kdo. Südost, and believed to have just arrived there. A month later, moved to Franzfeld (Kraljevičevo, Alibunar) in the Banat NNE of Belgrade to take command over the new airfields being constructed in that area.
7 Jun 1944 - still at Franzfeld and remained there to October 1944 - subordinated the Fliegerhorstkommandanturen at Franzfeld (Alibunar), Niš, Pančevo, Belgrade-Zemun, Kraljevo and Kruševac.
15 Nov 1944 - now at Pécs in S Hungary, having just moved from Franzfeld.
21 Jan 1945 - ordered disbanded this date by Luftflotte 4, but this may have been postponed because its Feldpost number was never deleted. No further identified.
FpNs
L 45878
L 08460
Kommandant
Oberst Walther Aschoff (9 Apr 42 -
Oberst Fritz Heising (Jan 43 - Mar 43)
Oberst Alfred Fleischer (Mar 43 - ? ) 12/44
References
Posting by Larry deZeng IV on Axis History Forum 3 Nov 2004.