eBay: Messerschmitt Bf109

Snautzer01 · Oct 12, 2019

And this is what Kotschenreuther was doing. Relaying spotter messages.

Orig. Foto Atlantikwall Beobachter Optik Stellung WISSANT Calais Frankreich 1940 | eBay
Orig. Foto Atlantikwall Beobachter Optik Stellung WISSANT Calais Frankreich 1940 | eBay
Orig. Foto Nachrichten Funker in Opel Blitz Funkwagen WISSANT Frankreich 1940 | eBay

Snautzer01 · Oct 12, 2019

orig. Foto, Luftwaffe, Technik, Jagd-Flugzeug Messerschmitt BF 109, ME 109 | eBay

fubar57 · Oct 12, 2019

Sometimes Google Translate is a cruel mistress

Wayne Little · Oct 12, 2019

Great Pics.

Wurger · Oct 12, 2019

Snautzer01 said:
orig. Foto, Luftwaffe, Technik, Jagd-Flugzeug Messerschmitt BF 109, ME 109 | eBay

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And that's so called "landing in beetroots"

Gnomey · Oct 12, 2019

Nice shots!

CATCH 22 · Oct 13, 2019

fubar57 said:
I think that aircraft belonged to a training unit...... Luftgau-Nachrichten-Regiment 13 The photo is from the estate of Unteroffizier der Luftwaffe Otto Kotschenreuther . Couldn't find any info about him or the unit

Luftgau-Nachrichten Regiment #xx is a Signal Unit, not a training unit. AFAIK Luftnachrichten regiments or divisions were signal units.

fubar57 · Oct 13, 2019

Kinda thrown by the translator Luft = air and the the guys war-time bio(my red)...

From the GIANTS estate of the Luftwaffe sergeant Otto Kotschenreuther from Nuremberg.
April to October 1939 Labor Service i.d. RAD department 3/281 in Hersbruck, east of Nuremberg.
Also used as a construction department for the R.P.T. 1939 in Nuremberg (Langwasser).
December 1939 drafted in the 18th Company of Luftgau-Nachrichten-Regiment 13 in Nuremberg-Buchenbühl.
In March 1940 transferred to the Flugmeldekompanie (mot.) 6/1., Part of the Luftgau-Nachrichten-Regiment 1.
With this unit in the Western campaign, and later crew of the Channel coast in northern France.
February 1941 via Hungary to Romania and use as teaching staff in Bulgaria.
April 1941 Balkan campaign in Yugoslavia and Greece until the beginning of June 1941 as occupation troops.
June 22, 1941 from Poland from the beginning of the Eastern campaign, Army Group Center, then Army Group North.
As a result of illness end of 1941 from February 1942 as a recruit trainer again at 18./Lg.Nachr.Rgt.13.
November 1942 to the Stabsbatterie III./Art.Rgt.11 (L) of the newly established 11th Air Force Field Division.
With this unit from January 1943 again in the southeast, mostly security in the area Athens, Greece.
November 1943 after dissolution of the 11th LWFD in southern France, group leader training at the 242.ID.
After d. Invasion in June 1944 with a Flugmelde squad back to d. Balkans sent.
Fall 1944 lossy retreat and gang fight in Croatia, until May 8, 1945 in Agram.
After escaping for the Russians capitulation in Salzburg at d. Americans, he survived the war

Snautzer01 · Oct 14, 2019

CATCH 22 said:
Luftgau-Nachrichten Regiment #xx is a Signal Unit, not a training unit. AFAIK Luftnachrichten regiments or divisions were signal units.

Please read post 863-865