Stalingrad: digging near Gorodisсhe & Gumrak

[wharfrat57]

Andrey,
Thanks so much for sharing all of this with us...

[aastyer]

Great posts and pictures from everyone. Thank you! Does anyone dig near the Pitomnik and Morosowskaja airfield sites? I am looking for HE 111 information and relics. I hope to travel to Volgograd and take part in a battlefield tour and dig in the next few years. My wife has a distant relative whose father went missing during the Stalingrad Airlift. He flew HE 111s. I have been gathering as much information about him and his unit (Kampfgeschwader 55) as I can. Do people ever find Luftwaffe Flugbuchs or Soldbuchs over in Russia? Thanks for reading and thank you for any assistance. Feel free to contact me, if needed.

[Sebastien]

My wife has a distant relative whose father went missing during the Stalingrad Airlift.
He flew HE 111s. I have been gathering as much information about him and his unit (Kampfgeschwader 55) as I can.

Wow! This is interesting news.
Just yesterday, I read about this KG 55 'Greif' ))))))




I dug near Oblivskaya, there was a large airfield.


But it's a good idea to come to Morosowskaja. But I need good maps and location scheme the airfield near the village of Morosowskaja.
I think the U.S. is not a problem to find it. There are many Luftwaffe archives.

Airfields and Air Base Locations KG 55

14 Jul 1942 - 23 Aug 1942 = Airfield Kramatorskaja & Samorsk = Gruppe VIII. Fliegerkorps Aircraft Used He 111H
23 Aug 1942 - 27 Dec 1943 = Airfield Morosowskaja
27 Dec 1943 - 2 Jan 1943 = Airfield Saki
2 Jan 1943 - 31 Jan 1943 = Airfield Nowotscherkask

also I found the box of the aircraft He 111H

we can cooperate in this matter. I like the history of the Luftwaffe in Stalingrad ...

[Paul D]

Andrey i have much information about JG3 Udet at Stalingrad as i was great friends with two veterans from 9 Staffel who were the Platzschutzstaffel at Pitomnik and were only withdrawn out of the Kessel on 20/12/43 the last Air unit to leave , if you are interested in them i can give you some information !!

cheers

Paul

[Sebastien]

Andrey i have much information about JG3 Udet at Stalingrad as i was great friends with two veterans from 9 Staffel who were the Platzschutzstaffel at Pitomnik and were only withdrawn out of the Kessel on 20/12/43 the last Air unit to leave , if you are interested in them i can give you some information !!

cheers

Paul

Ok!!! my e-mail: sebastian2ndkm@ya.ru

I will be very glad information...

but I've never been to Pitomnik.
But my friends were there ...

this find was a long time ago ...

[Paul D]

That is a great find my friend , one of the veterans was Schentke 's aircraft mechanic and knew him very well !!

[lokvar]

Hi Seb

Maybe you know this page..... for better digging
Stalingrad Assorted Maps

Sašo

[Sebastien]

Thank you very much.
But I know this site since 2009. I think that it is best write to my e-mail. And here in this thread I'll summarize and talk about the sources of materials.

I must be honest that I have a lot of material about Stalingrad, but this information is little for use.

alas, but I can not get to the library of the U.S. Congress or Bundesarhiv. There really interesting documents.

[Paul D]

Ok!!!
I will be very glad information...

but I've never been to Pitomnik.
But my friends were there ...

this find was a long time ago ...

Leutnant Georg Schentke
9. Staffel / Jaggeschader 3 Udet

Georg 'Peterle' Schentke (23 November 1919 – 25 December 1942) was a German Luftwaffe ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.
Feldwebel Schentke served with 9./JG 3 from March 1940. He participated in the Battle of France, where he earned his first victory. Schentke also served during the Battle of Britain claiming 3 more victories. He next took part in Operation Barbarossa, during 1941, flying wingman to Major Walter Oesau, who was his Gruppenkommandeur of III./JG 3. After 34 victories, Oberfeldwebel Schentke received the Ritterkreuz on 4 September 1941.
From November, over the winter, III./JG 3 was rotated from the front for recuperation, and including a short stint in Italy in January. Schentke briefly transferred to 2./JG 3 and flew escort missions for the transport planes flying in supplies to the Demyansk pocket. He then returned to 9./JG 3 and continued to score regularly. In late July 1942, after 71 confirmed victories, Schentke was transferred to Ergänzungsgruppe Süd as an instructor, promoted to Leutnant and awarded the German Cross in Gold.
He returned to the Eastern Front in November 1942, joining 2./JG 3. Schentke was part of the volunteer Platzschutzstaffel (Airfield Defence squadron) Pitomnik. Their job was to defend the besieged 6th Army airfields near Stalingrad and protect the vulnerable transports on the last leg of their flights into the pocket. Over 6 weeks, in heavy snows and fogs and often with only 2 or 3 Bf 109's serviceable, this small unit claimed some 130 Soviet aircraft shot down. Schentke himself scored 29 victories including three on 10 December and six on 12 December in 5 missions.
On Christmas Day 1942 Schentke shot down a Soviet Il-2 but debris damaged his Bf 109G-2 (Black-3, W.Nr 13885) forcing him to bail out over Soviet positions to the west of the city. That was the last time he was seen alive. He was posthumously promoted to Oberleutnant.
During his career he was credited with 90 aerial victories, 4 over the Western Front and 86 over the Eastern Front, including at least 15 Il-2 Sturmoviks.

[Sebastien]

Leutnant Georg Schentke
9. Staffel / Jaggeschader 3 Udet

After 34 victories, Oberfeldwebel Schentke received the Ritterkreuz on 4 September 1941.

During his career he was credited with 90 aerial victories, 4 over the Western Front and 86 over the Eastern Front, including at least 15 Il-2 Sturmoviks.

Georg Schentke inspects shot down IL-2, he did it. Near the village Orlovka, north of Stalingrad.