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Fighter pilot training in France

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:22 pm
by SvenW
Any information about: Fluganwärter-Bataillon Monte-Rosa, St. Malo/France?

All I know about is that my grand uncle was there, but not if he was a trainee or a coach or when exactly.

Thanks.

Sven.

"Flieger, grüß mir die Sonne, ..."

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 3:56 pm
by SvenW
:( Now I know much more, because my grand uncles son or other relatives are not interested in such things as his origin documents (Wehrpaß and Luftwaffen-Flugzeugführerschein). So I am the inheritor of these items plus many pictures and more than fourty books AND his Flieger-Kopfhaube LKpW101.

Günter Otto Suckrow, (Uffz.),
03.08.1924 - 07.09.2004 Berlin,

Wehrpaß Berlin X/24/145/1/10 Fr.
01.12.41 - 03.03.42 - 1./Fliegerausbildungsregiment 26
04.03.42 - 10.03.42 - 7./Fliegeranwärterbataillon Monte Rosa
11.03.42 - 04.10.42 - 5./ " " "
05.10.42 - 24.11.42 - 4./ 2
25.11.42 - 01.03.43 - Flugzeugführerschule A/B 51, Schülerkompanie
02.03.43 - 01.09.43 - " " 9, "
02.09.43 - 13.02.44 - 3./Jagdgeschwader 103
14.02.44 - 25.03.44 - 1./Jagdgeschwader 10?
26.03.44 - 29.04.44 - 2./Jagdgruppe ???
30.04.44 - 10.08.44 - III./Jagdgeschwader 26 - 9. Staffel
11.08.44 - 08.01.45 - 1. or I./Frontflieger-Sammelgruppe Quedlinburg/Harz
09.01.45 - 26.03.45 - 17.(E) Jagdgeschwader 1
27.03.45 - 08.04.45 - Schulungslehrgang "Elbe" [Rammjäger]
08.04.45 Entlassung in US-Gefangenschaft durch Flg.-H.-Kdtr. A106 XVII [???] Klagenfurt

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:40 pm
by Schultz
Am interested what are the question marks for ?



Schultz

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:25 pm
by SvenW
I am too. :wink:

??? and [] = from me.

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:20 am
by SvenW
01.01.43 - Gefreiter
01.04.43 - Unteroffiziersanwärter
01.03.44 - Obergefreiter
01.05.45 - Unteroffizier

Pistole 08, K98k, Vz26 (t), MG15

08.07.44 - Verwundetenabzeichen in schwarz




Luftwaffen-Flugzeugführerschein 183/43


Segelflieger C/Luftfahrerschein Klasse I
Einsatzbereit auf folgenden Flugzeugmustern:

Arado 66
Bücker 131
Arado 96
Bücker 181
Focke-Wulf 44
Klemm 35
W 34 [?]
Klemm 32
Bücker 182
Heinkel 51
Gotha 145
Heinkel 72
Focke-Wulf 58
NAA 63 [?]
Bloch 154, 155, 156
Bücker 133
Focke-Wulf 56
NAA 57 [?]
Arado 68
Dewoitine 520
Bf 108
Bf 109 B, C, D, E, F, G, K

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 3:22 am
by Dackel Staffel
Hi,

Just for info :
NAA means North American Aviation.
The NAA 57 is a US training plane used by the french navy.
Image
See the site :
http://frenchnavy.free.fr/aircraft/naa-57/naa-57.htm
I haven't found what is a NAA 63 but there is a NAA 64 ( an updated NAA 57)
I guess W34 means the Junker W34.

So long.

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 4:06 am
by SvenW
Thanx! :D

Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 12:52 am
by SvenW
As I mentioned above, I inherit some books, most of them about the Luftwaffen fighter pilots or the Bf 109.
I will offer my help to all you enthusiast, who are unable to get these book or an other. If you need informations, I will take a look.


- Geschichte eines Jagdgeschwaders, Das JG 26 (Schlageter) von 1937 bis 1945, Josef Priller, Kurt Vowinckel Verlag 1956

- Die berühmten Me 109 und ihre Piloten, Walter A Musciano, Motorbbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1989

- Flugzeug-Typenbuch, Handbuch der deutschen Luftfahrt- und Zubehörindustrie, Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1944, Helmut Schneider, Gondrom Verlag, Bindlach 1986

- Fliegen lernen!, Herausgegeben unter Mitwirkung des RLM, Verlag Dr.-Ing. Spohr, Dresden 194?

- Der Flugzeugführer, Dipl.-Ing. Otto R. Thomsen, Hptm. d.R., NSFK-Oberführer, Handbuch für die Ausbildung, Verlag E.S. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1940

- ME 109 "Gustav", Die Entstehungsgeschichte der berühmten Fox-Mike+Bravo-Bravo, Werner L. Blasel, Verlag E.S. Mittler & Sohn, Herford 1984

- Die deutschen Jagdflieger, Franz F. Winter, Universitas Verlag München, 1987

to be continued...

Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:42 pm
by SvenW
Image

December ´42 - looking like a child.


Image

August ´44 - an old man.


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Re: Fighter pilot training in France

Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 1:54 pm
by swat36
Bonjour,

I am studying JG 103 in France (March 1943 - March 1944).

I can say that pilot Suckrow was the student of pilot Uffz. Faber (in November-December 1943) according to the Flugbuche of this pilot

I am sorry : I can not opened your image.

Best regards

Philippe