Wettererkundungsstaffel

Wekusta
Luftwaffe Weather Reconnaissance Detachments

 

Wettererkundungsstaffel 6

Wekusta 5 & 6 crew members

Wettererkundungsstaffel 6

10.1943

Disbanded

11.1944

Formed from Wetterkette "Banak".

Ju 88 from Wekusta 5 at Banak


Unit badge on Ju 88

Luftwaffe - code

D7 + .P

 

Bases

Banak

10.1943 -

He 111, He 177, Ju 88

Feldpost

Feldpost No:
L 51 638

(21.10.1943)
Wettererkundungsstaffel 6
13.1.1945
Closed

Losses

1.8.1944

Ju 88 D-1: Code D7+CP: Crashed into Flattind in Tana on flight to Nowaja-Semlja.
Killed: Lt. Hans Dubrow, Reg. Rat. Ludwig Gebhardt,  Obergef. Anton Wucher, Fw Horst Jepp.

16.12.1944

He 111 H-16: Code D7+GP: 8 km north of Apatly - Crashed during agent drop in soviet territory.
Killed: Uffz. Hubert Rauch, Oblt. Wilhelm Schauen, Uffz. Hermann Preindl, fw. Friedrich Windhorst, Sonderführer Alexander Althausen + 2 agents.

 

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