On 13 February, Fw 189 (VX+NB) with Oblt. In the face of strong Soviet forces advancing west from the Stalingrad area, the Staffel was compelled to evacuate to the airfield at Rovenki/55 km S of Voroshilovgrad by 31 December and then to airfields in the Gorlovka-Stalino area in January and February 1943. Based at Krasnodar/N Caucasia in November, 2.(H)/10 was ordered north to Millerovo in December to support the heavy fighting west of Stalingrad and eventually reassigned to NAGr. The Staffel's first recorded loss in Russia occurred on 18 July at Artemovsk/N of Stalino when a Fw 189 crashed, killing the crew of three, and the first combat loss on 5 September when another Fw 189 was shot down by ground fire at Borisovka/N Caucasia wounding Hptm. 9 for support of AOK 17’s offensive into North Caucasia. On completion of conversion to 8 x Fw 189As by the end of June 1942, assigned to NAGr. No losses were reported for the first year of the campaign in Russia, but it is very difficult to believe that none occurred. Transferred to Kharkov-Voichenko on 10 April 1942 for conversion to the Fw 189.
on 1 March the Staffel reported 6 x Hs 126B-1s on strength. AK/AOK 6, and then in the Belgorod area/70 km NNE of Kharkov from December 1941 to March 1942 with station at Kharkov I under Koluft/AOK 6. By mid-September, after advancing via Zhitomir/W Ukraine, operations were in the Borispol area/SE of Kiev in support of XXIX. In a peculiar incident on 19 June, three Fi 156s (T1+NK, OK, PK) belonging to the Staffel were reported missing on a ferry flight east from Gleiwitz in Silesia after apparently getting lost en-route. Ordered from Greece to the Zamość area in SE Poland in June 1941 and assigned to Koluft/AOK 6 under Heeresgruppe Süd (Army Group South) for the attack on the Soviet Union that began on 22 June. Hans Wiedemann, followed on 21 April by Hs 126 (T1+KK), which was shot down by AA-fire in the Thermopylae area on 11 May 2.(H)/10 was based at Larissa in Central Greece. The first loss occurred on 14 April at Katerine/SSW of Salonika when a Hs 126 was shot down by a RAF Hurricane, wounding the observer, Oblt. Gebirgskorps/AOK 12 operations into YugoslaviaĪnd Greece beginning on 6 April. Fliegerkorps, moving forward to Bulgaria by 5 April to support XVIII. In mid-February 1941 the Staffel was ordered to Craiova in Romania for assignment to VIII. A fatal crash was recorded near Eschweiler, located a few kilometers from Aachen in NW Germany, on 17 December 1940, which suggests a presence at one of the airfields in that area. By November 2.(H)/10 was back in Germany. Armeekorps for the planned invasion of England. On 30 August 1940 the Staffel was based on the Channel coast under Koluft/AOK 9 in support of VIII. AK/AOK 18 and continued on into North France, but this cannot be confirmed and appears doubtful. One account states that it transferred to Belgium, possibly at the end of May, to support XXVI. The Staffel departed Trondheim-Vaernes for Germany on 28 May, but its movements after that date are not known. One further Hs 126B-l was lost to British AA-fire near Mo in Central Norway on 15 May, the pilot and observer both being captured. After arriving at Oslo-Fornebu on 21 April, 4 Hs 126s were damaged on the ground during a RAF night raid on the airfield 22/23 April, and this was repeated during the night of 1/2 Armeekorpsgruppe ground operations in Norway, moving north through Aalborg/Denmark on 20 April 1940 where two Hs 126s were involved in a mid-air collision killing both crews. Evidence suggests it transferred to Luftflotte 2 in NW Germany at the end of 1939 or early 1940, Hs 126 crashes being recorded at Fassberg on 10 January 1940 and at Travemünde on 22 March. AK/AOK 3) from the Graudenz-Mlawa area east and south to the vicinity of Bialystok - Brest-Litovsk, and then probably returned to Neuhausen on conclusion of the campaign at the end of September. Moved forward from Neuhausen to Ganshorn/E Prussia with 12 Hs 126s for the invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, supporting I. The Staffel converted to the Hs 126 during spring and summer 1939. (Nov 38 - Aug 39)įormed 1 November 1938 at Neuhausen/East Prussia (ex-2.(H)/11) with He 46s.