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3. squadron (remote) Scout group 33 (3.(F)/Aufkl.Gr. 33)
The squadron was formed under the command of Hptm. Heinrich-Peter Gehrkena in the Kassel-Rothwesten between march and June 1941 with experienced crews withdrawn from the units deployed in Norway, Aufklärungsgruppe (F) 22 and several of the newly trained (inexperienced) crews from Ergänzungs-Aufklärungsstaffel from Weimar-Nohra. During may, the ground staff moved the train to Schippenbeilu in east Prussia, where 4. June joined the aircraft and crews. The planes were all new Junkers Ju 88 and carry the code 8H, the code of the squadron was L (8H+_L). Later, he was on the side of the bow of each aircraft shows a black symbol of the "Siegrune" in the black olemovaném the white circle (often referred to members of the squadron as a "hook" or "bone"), who designed Lt. Günther Röwertem.
The squadron was operationally subordinated to Koluft 17, Heeresgruppe A. Here the squadron lost the first aircraft 20.06.1941, when Junkers Ju 88 A-5, W.Nr. 742, suffered 30% damage during an emergency landing on the airport Schippenbeil. Four days later, 24.06.1941, two days after the start of operation Barbarossa, carried out the squadron early in the morning the first operational reconnaissance flight with the airplane Junkers Ju 88 D-5 8H+HL under the command of Oblt. Rührschnecka with a crew of Fw. Hild and Uffz. Stender. That day were carried out two years ago and 27.06.1941 suffered the squadron's first combat loss, when Junkers Ju 88 A-5(F) 8H+FL, W.Nr. 0740, commander Lt. Dr. Robert Gymichem did not return from a reconnaissance flight and was reported missing in the area of Polock-Pskov.
On 19.07.1941, when the squadron moved to Bereziny, from the flight back Junkers Ju 88 A-5(F), W.Nr. 739, Lt. Hans-Joachim Hinrichs and crew were declared missing. Two days later, he lost another Junkers Ju 88 D-2, W.Nr. 798, 8H+DL, who did not return from a reconnaissance flight to the area Bobruisk; Lt. Ernst Grund and the crew were pronounced dead.
After a brief stop at the Berezina was the squadron moved to Borisova, where she remained until the beginning of September. Then moved to Vitebsk, where she stayed into early 1942. During the winter of 1941/1942 was most of the ground personnel and light anti-aircraft unit separated squadrons and deployed as infantry at the Vyazma and Smolensk. In February 1942, after the loss of nine aircraft and eight crew and a further nine damaged aircraft was the squadron withdrawn from Russia and moved first to the Le Culot in Belgium and then to the airport Paris-Orly in may 1942, where they joined the survivors of the ground crew from Russia. Now was the squadron subordinated to the IX. Fliegerkorps. Squadron under the command of Hptm. Hans-Ulrich Michael remained in the Paris-Orly to November. During that time carried out reconnaissance missions over the North sea and the eastern and south-eastern England. These missions often take off from airports in the Netherlands and France. After the loss of seven aircraft from the previous months and a further seven damaged was the squadron at the end of November 1942, the moved to Bordeaux and after 14 days in the Montpellier on the southeast coast of the Mediterranean sea. Now under the command of Mjr. Michael Freiherr von Buttlara were carried out reconnaissance flights over the western Mediterranean between the southern coast of France, Corsica, Sardinia, Gibraltar and north Africa.
At that time the squadron also carried out anti-submarine operations with the help of deep-sea bombs. the squadron remained in the Montpellier by the end of June 1943, when it was moved to the Ottany in Sardinia. From there she flew against Malta, Gibraltar and the coast of north Africa. At the airport Ottana lost squadron of four of his Junkers Ju 88 D-1 (W.Nr. 1425, 1433, 430284, 430850) due to allied sabotage in the night of 11.07.1943 on 12.07.1943.
In August 1943 the squadron was commanded by Hptm. Westphal, the squadron was moved to the Frosinone in central Italy, where she lost the next four Junkers Ju 88. One during the flight to the Paris, two with crews from 2.(F)/Aufkl.Gr. 122 due to enemy action and one in a crash during a low flight over the surface of the Mediterranean sea, the crew was saved and taken into captivity. Later was the squadron moved north to Forli (67 km southeast of Bologna), at the time he took over the command of the Oblt. Hans Bayer. In December, the squadron moved to Köningsberg-Devau in east Prussia to overkill on the Junkers Ju 188.
After the completion of the rearmament and training she returned to the eastern Mediterranean in march 1944 by Athens-Kalamaki in southern Greece. From there she flew missions over Italy, Cyprus, Malta, Haifa, the Suez canal and Alexandria. Less than a month later by Junkers Ju 188Oblt. Hans Bayer (crew Lt. Helms, Uffz. Bergholz) 1000. years of the squadron. At the end of the flight had the aircraft due to the damage to make an emergency landing at the airport Kalamaki. About a week later, on 12.04.1944, lost a squadron of its first Junkers Ju 188 8H+KL occupied by the same crew that crashed into the port of Piraeus. Although the aircraft was later repaired, the entire crew died. On 28.07.1944 flew lt. Kaspar Kähn and his crew (Uffz. Erwin Grubber, Uffz. Walter, Uffz. Fischer) to Malta, when he was their Junkers Ju 188 attacked by two Spitfires (P/O Ballantine and Lt. Rowe), 185. squadron RAF and after the damage he had to return to make an emergency landing on the sea in the Ionian islands near Cephalonia. The aircraft remained afloat and the crew is rescued on the island, where she spent two weeks until she returned finally to the airport Kalamaki.
At the end of 1944 was the squadron reinforced by crews 2.(F)/Aufkl.Gr. 123 of Athens-Tatoi, which lost many of its aircraft due to allied bombing. During this time she got a Squadron of the first Junkers Ju 88 T-1 and Junkers Ju 88 T-3 and moved to Steinamanger (Szómbathely) in western Hungary and then to the Lake in Zagreb. Meanwhile, the ground staff, who went out of the Athens 19.09.1944, teamed up after tříměsíčně way finally with the squadron in the Prom 21.12.1944.
From the Ball flying squadron over Italy and the Adriatic sea, but it wasn't easy because of the increasing activity of the allied fighters and the guerrillas in the vicinity of the airport. On 18.12.1944 was shot down by Junkers Ju 188 D-2, W.Nr. 150536, not far from the airport under the command of Lt. Franz Krattenmachera. The only survivor was Ofw. Otto Karlowski, the shooter, who jumped on a parachute over the territory controlled by the partisans and was rescued by a special section of the staff of the squadron.
At the end of January 1945 the squadron under the command of Hptm. Christian Jähriga moved to a small airport Sorokuifalu and carried out here in February and march of your last mission against the advancing Red army. On 25.03.1945 got the squadron was ordered to retreat, first through the airport Götzendorf and Markersdorf in Austria to Kirchhamu in Bavaria, where they arrived the 09.04.1945. There were the remaining planes destroyed soon after the arrival of the american air raid. Now most of the remaining crews and ground personnel distributed among the other squadrons or ground units, as well as earlier in Russia.
But the story of the squadron does not end there, in Bavaria, were the crew on 05.05.1945 moved from Linz-Hörsching by Klagenfurt in two twin-engined Siebel Si 204. In addition, it was one of the aircraft Siebel Si 204 S3+XC lost and crew died as a result of the impact into the flanks of the nearby mountains.
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