Luftwaffe
Reconnaissance
and Supply Flights

 

 
Greenland


Picture of Greenland Coast line near Scoresby Sund taken from He 111 (1B+DH) on 31.3.1941


 Wettererkundungs-Staffel 5 (Wekusta 5)
Værnes, Norway


He 111 (1B+DH) at Banak Airfield April 1941

Date

Plane

Sqdn
Base

Code

Operation

Ref

24.3.41

He 111

Wekusta 5
Værnes

1B+DH

Reconnaissance flight - plane hit by lightning and returned to Værnes.

WF

31.3.41

He 111

Wekusta 5
Værnes

1B+DH

Reconnaissance flight - Scoresby Sund area

WF

 

Kampfgeschwader 40 (KG 40)
Værnes, Norway


FW 200 "Condor" of KG40

Date

Plane

Sqdn
Base

Code

Operation

Ref

10.11.40

FW 200

1/KG 40
Værnes

F8+CH

Reconnaissance flight - "Sonderunternehmung Graf Finckelstein" - German Abwehr (intelligence) sponsored search flight to investigate the fate of the missing (captured) weather troop: "Nanok" at Kap Biot in Flemming Fjord. Dropped message (letter in a cigar-box) at the Danish Police Station at Ella Ø

NE37

27.3.41

FW 200

3/KG 40
Sola

F8+GL

Ice reconnaissance flight - Scoresby Sund area - after 17 hour landed at Værnes airfield in Norway.

NE85

10.7.42

FW 200

1/KG 40
Værnes

F8+BH

Reconnaissance flight (Htpm Jope) - Kong Oscar Fjord, Hochstetter Forland and Shannon Island - before departure of WBS 1 Sachsen and Holtzauge (Unit was 3/KG 40 JP)

NE121
GW

15.8.42

FW 200

3/KG 40
Værnes

  

Reconnaissance flight (Oblt. Feld) - Shannon Island, Goldweg Island and Germanialand. Passenger Fw. Van Besshuysen

JP

21.8.42

FW 200

3/KG 40
Værnes

F8+AL

Reconnaissance flight (Lt Müller) - Scoresby Sund.

JP

24.8.42

FW 200

1/KG 40
3/KG 40
Værnes

F8+GH
F8+LL

Ice reconnaissance flight (Htpm Jope) - support of WBS 1 Sachsen and Holtzauge. Passenger Sdf. Theyer.

NE122
JP

28.8.42

FW 200

1/KG 40
Værnes

F8+FH

Ice reconnaissance flight (Htpm Jope) - support of WBS 1 Sachsen and Holtzauge. Passenger Lt. Theyer.
(Unit was 3/KG 40 JP)

JP

26.5.43

FW 200

3/KG 40
Værnes

F8+IL

Supply flight - First air drop of supplies (10 containers) at Hansa Bugt, Sabine Island. Delivered the day after the USAAF attack on the land station. (Holtzauge)

NE166

15.8.43

FW 200

3/KG 40
Værnes

F8+DL

Ice reconnaissance flight before departure of WBS 2 Coburg and Bassgeiger

NE203

24.8.43

FW 200

1/KG 40
Værnes

F8+GH

Ice reconnaissance flight before departure of WBS 2 Coburg and Bassgeiger . Reported ships in Scoresby Sund and attacked by AA-fire from USCG Cutter Northland south of Shannon Island (20.8.43 TH)

NE203
TH


FW 200 C-3 "Condor" (F8+GH) of 1/KG40

16.9.43

FW 200

KG 40

?

Supply flight - failed to locate WBS 2 Coburg.

NE204

18.9.43

FW 200

KG 40

?

Supply flight - drop of 9 containers with supplies and explosives to blast WBS 2 Coburg free of the ice.
2 containers lost in the water. From Dr. Schatz dairy: "...Dann packen wir die Bomben aus, haben wir doch heimlich gehofft, Post zu finden."

NE204
DL160

28.9.43

FW 200

KG 40

?

Possible supply flight [Liversidge] - drop of explosives to blast WBS 2 Coburg free of ice.

DL160

16.12.43

FW 200

KG 40

-

Supply flight - cancelled due to bad weather.

NE207

12.1.44

FW 200

3/KG 40
Værnes

F8+NL

Supply flight - drop Mail and supplies near WBS 2 Coburg - could not locate shore station at Kap Sussi.
Mail delivered to Shore station on 14.1.44.

NE242

11.2.44

FW 200

KG 40
Værnes

-

Supply flight - cancelled due to bad weather.

NE243

14.3.44

FW 200

KG 40
Værnes

?

Supply flight - drop Mail and supplies near Kap Sussi.
Mail delivered to the crew on WBS 2 Coburg on 20.3.44

NE244


Picture of WBS 2 Coburg taken from supply flight on 14th March 1944

?.4.44

FW 200

KG 40
Værnes

-

Supply flight - Cancelled due to soon evacuation of weather troop Bassgeiger

NE244

2.6.44

FW 200

3/KG 40
Værnes

F8+RL

Reconnaissance of landing field on the ice of Nordenskjölds Bugt south of Kap Sussi. Made several "Touch and Go" landings on the ice.

NE247
Kö184

17.8.44

FW 200

III/KG 40
Værnes

F8+AD

Ice reconnaissance flight - Shannon Island to Germania Land - before departure of WBS 6 Kehdingen and Edelweiss

NE270

29.8.44

FW 200

III/KG 40
Værnes

F8+?D

Ice reconnaissance flight - Shannon Island - Store Koldewey Island - support of WBS 6 Kehdingen and Edelweiss - Reported 400 BRT enemy ship near Shannon Island - ( USCG Cutter Northland)

NE270

 

Erprobungsstelle für Seeflugzeuge
der Luftwaffe (E-Stelle) in Travemünde


Do 26 V6 (P5+FH) on the ice near Sabine Island 17.6.1943

Date

Plane

Sqdn
Base

Code

Operation

Ref

7.6.43

Do 26 V6

E-stelle
Tromsö

P5+FH

Evacuation flight - Evacuation of 7 members of the weather troop Holzauge. Carried the first Mail received during the weather expedition.

NE168
GW160

17.6.43

Do 26 V6

E-stelle
Tromsö

P5+FH

Evacuation flight - Evacuation of last members of the weather troop Holzauge.

NE169

 
BV 222 "Wiking" in Billefjord, Norway

Date

Plane

Sqdn
Base

Code

Operation

Ref

9.11.43

BV 222

E-stelle
Tromsö

TB+QN

Evacuation flight - cancelled after 1 hour due to bad weather.

NE205

15.11.43

BV 222

E-stelle
Tromsö

TB+QN

Evacuation flight - cancelled due to bad weather

NE205

17.11.43

BV 222

E-stelle
Tromsö

TB+QN

Evacuation flight - failed to locate WBS 2 Coburg and the shore station at Kap Sussi due to low clouds

NE205

 

Fernaufklärungs-Gruppe 5
Mont-de-Marsan, France

 
JU 290 (9V-MK) landed on the ice south of Kap Sussi 3.6.1944

Date

Plane

Sqdn
Base

Code

Operation

Ref

3.6.44

JU 290

2/FAG 5
Mont-de-Marsan

9V+MK

Evacuation flight (Hptm Sachtleben) - landed on the ice of Nordenskjölds Bugt south of "Alabama"-Hytten.
Weather troop Bassgeiger + crew of WBS 2 Coburg evacuated back to Værnæs in Norway.

KO

 

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