Wettererkundungsstaffel

Wekusta
Luftwaffe Weather Reconnaissance Detachments

 

Wettererkundungsstaffel 1 / O.b.d. Luftwaffe

Grossraum-Wekusta (Wettererkundungsstaffel)

3.1938

Wettererkundungsstaffel / O.b.d.L

6.1939

Wettererkundungsstaffel 1 / O.b.d.L

7.1940

Wettererkundungsstaffel 1 / OKL

7.1944

Disbanded

5.1945


He111H-2, T5+BU from Wekusta 1 / O.b.d.L


 He111H-2, T5+AU from Wekusta 1 / O.b.d.L

Luftwaffe - code

T5+.U
D7+.H

Until 7.1942
from 7.1942 (A to M)

Bases

Berlin-Gatow

3.1938

He 111, Ju 86P

Oldenburg

2.1940

He 111, Do 17Z

Bad Zwischenahn

5.1940

He 111, Ju 88D

Detachment at Stavanger-Sola (A204/III)
"Wetterkette Stavanger"
"Wetterkette Südnorwegen"

1940 -

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Detachment at Frankfurt/Main

1944 -

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Husum

1944 -

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Feldpost

Letter from Gefr. Mann 15.8.1940 L 05356 Luftgaupostamt Hamburg 1
- same as Uffz Walter Mann who was shot down by flak SW of Borkum (13.1.1943).


Registered letter from Bad Zwischenahn (15.6.1943) - "Vermissten - Anzeige"
Missing in Action message to family of Helmut Luft - via local NSDAP in Berlin-Karlshorst.
Briefstempel: Dienststelle Feldpostnummer L 05356 = Wekusta 1 Ob.d.L.

Feldpost No:
L 05 356

1940


1943

(1939)
Wettererkundungsstaffel 3 (?)
(12.7.1941)
Wettererkundungsstaffel Ob.d.L. 1
28.10.1944
Wettererkundungsstaffel OKL 1

Losses

?.12.1940

Do 17Z: Code ?+?: This aircraft was shot down by French fighters and crash-landed to the east of Calais in December 1939

17.1.1940

He111 H-2: Code T5+EU: Fair Isle - Crash due to enemy fire from No. 3 Sqdn RAF Hurricane.
Killed: Wd. Insp. A. Kr. Leo Gburek, Gefr. Georg Nentwig.
PoW: Lt. Karl Heinz Thurz, Fw. Josef Wohlfahrt, Uffz. Bernard Lunking.

See story on Fair Isle Website.

8.2.1941

He111 H-5: Code ??: Stavanger - attacked by German Bf 110 from ZG 76.
Wounded: Gefr. Fritz Limberg.

18.12.1941

 Ju 88: Crash east of Shetland.

4.11.1942

 Ju 88 D-1: Code D7+BH: 57N 02E North of Humber. Shot down by a Beaufighter from No. 125 (Newfoundland) Squadron RAF.
 Killed: Lt. Rolf Elson, Reg. Rat. Dr. Spliethoff, Reichert, Smollony.

10.11.1942

 Ju 88 D-1: Code D7+GH: Crash due to enemy fire off the  eastcoast of Scotland.
Faith unknown: Hptm Kurt Jonas

14.12.1942

Ju 88 D-1: Code: ??: Crash landing in Aalborg.
 Crew rescued: Ofw. Ernest Manske


 

24.12.1942

Ju 88 D-5: Code D7+KH: Skjelanger (E 15/III Herdla) - crash due to enemy fire.
Killed: Fw. George Könneke, Ofw Kurt Simon, Uffz Fritz Schönert, Reg. Rat. Rudolf Bungers.

13.1.1943

Ju 88 D-5: Code D7+CH: SW of Borkum - hit by flak.
Killed: Oblt.Siegfried Reuter, Uffz. Walter Mann, Uffz. Siegmund Berowski, Reg. Rat. Heinrich Mayer.

12.6.1943

Ju 88 D-1: Code D7+BH: Missing in the North Sea during flight to Iceland.
Killed: Oblt. Helmut Eber, Wd. Insp. Helmut Luft, Uffz. Rudolf Garz, Ofw. Hermann Sturwald.


 Ju 88 from Wekusta 1 OB.d.L. - (ex.  Wilfried Luft son of Helmut Luft).

13.8.1943

Ju 88 D-1: Code D7+GH: Høgsfjord near Stavanger-Sola (A 204/III) - Crash - Collision with a wire.
Killed: Oblt. Werner Storz, Fw. Henz Dipper, Uffz. Adolf Schneider, Prf. Mst. Stephan.

23.8.1943

Ju 88 D-1: Code D7+FH: North Sea. Crash due to enemy fire.
 Killed: Oblt. Karl Rapp, Reg. Rat. Otto Krug, Uffz. Alfred Schultz,  Fw. Otto Kuhle.

22.11.1943

 Ju 88 D-5: Code D7+BH:  Shot down by No. 333 (Norwegian) Sqdn RAF near Stavanger.
 Killed: Uffz Magnus Mannel

9.12.1943

 Ju 88 D-1: Code D7+DH:  Missing.
 Killed: Uffz. Detlef Neuenfeld, Reg. Rat. Hans-Jürgen Pfenningschmidt, Gef. Heinrich Udovic, Fw. Herbert Banz

8.1.1944

Ju 88 D: Code D7+CH: Force landed at sea due to bad weather at Frøya near Ørlandet (E 20 or 205/III).
Crew rescued: Uffz. Karl Erwin Mazur, Wd. OInsp Karl Trappe (Meteorolog), Fw Josef Reidmeier, Gefr. Müssig.

3.2.1945

 Ju 88 G-1: Code ?: Crash in North Sea.

11.2.1945


Ju 188 D7+GH

Ju 188 F-1: Code D7+GH: North Sea. Shot down by british aircraft.

 

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