1945 Luftwaffe flights to Festung Breslau and NAVAIDs

[yahya]

Has anyone encountered any technical details on the NAVAIDs used by the Germans during the siege of Festung Breslau?

During the 1945 siege of Festung Breslau, the German Luftwaffe made numerous resupply flights to the Klein Gandau airfield in suburban Breslau, mostly at night. Such flights are believed to have been spotted by the Soviets, who not only tried to disrupt them through kinetic means, but also allegedly jammed the navaids used by the Germans, eg. in mid-February 1945.

As a remedy, newer NAVAIDs were transferred from the Breslau-Schöngarten airfield, which the Soviets couldn't jam.

What kind of NAVAIDs were used by the Germans in Breslau? A sort of an NDB or the Lorenz beam blind landing system?

 

[Nick Beale]

If you're OK with reading German, you might find something in the files on the Breslau supply operations online at germandocsinrussia.org. If you go to this page, take a look at Akten (items) 677, 678, 679 & 680.

The Luftflotte 6 files online at the Bundesarchiv give information on supply sorties flown but (as far as I remember or that I noticed) nothing on navigation.

 

[yahya]

Thank you for the reply. I scanned through the files that you suggested, but couldn't find anything specific as radio navigation. There were telephony codes for various German airfields, but nothing more.

However, one file contained interesting maps, eg. the one below from ca. 10 April 1945, which shows the Klein Gandau airfield covered with bomb craters and some visible fires in the westernmost part of the city presumably after Soviet air raids.