Schlachtgeschwader 151

Geschwaderkommodoren:

Stab:

Formed 18.10.43 in Agram from Stab/St.G.151.

Bases:

I. Gruppe:

Gruppenkommandeure:

Formed 18.10.43 in Pancevo from I./St.G.151 with:

Stab I./SG151 from Stab I./St.G.151
1./SG151 from 1./St.G.151
2./SG151 from 2./St.G.151
3./SG151 from 3./St.G.151

On 17.8.44 3./SG151 became 5./SG151, and was reformed 10.44 in (?). 

Bases:

* 1./151 at Agram, 18.10.43 - ?.44; 2./151 at Agram (18.10.43 - 1.44), Alibunar (1.44 - 2.44), Pancevo (2.44 - ?.44) and Alibunar (?.44 - 8.44); 3./151 at Agram (18.12.43 - ?.44), Alibunar (?.44 - 16.8.44), reformed in (?), and at Bayreuth-Bindlach (?.45 - 19.4.45).

II. Gruppe:

Gruppenkommandeure:

Formed 18.10.43 in Agram from IV./St.G.151 with:

Stab II./SG151 from Stab IV./St.G.151
4./SG151 from 4./St.G.151
5./SG151 from 7./St.G.151
6./SG151 from 8./St.G.151

On 17.8.44 5./SG151 became 7./SG151, and was reformed from 3./SG151; 6./SG151 became 11./SG151, and was reformed 10.44 in Agram.

Bases:

* 4./SG151 at Agram (10.43 - 10.44), Finsterwalde (10.44 - 2.45), Fürstenwalde (2.45 - 2.45), Ingolstadt-Manching (2.45 - 4.45) and Würding (4.45 - 25.4.45)

* 5./SG151 at Agram (10.43 - 28.1.44), Pardubitz (29.1.44 - 17.8.44), Alibunar (17.8.44 - 10.44), Bekes (10.44 - ?.44), Liegnitz (?.44 - 9.2.45) and Finsterwalde (10.2.45 - 4.45)

* 6./SG151 at Agram (10.43 - 28.1.44), Pardubitz (29.1.44 - 17.8.44), Agram? (10.44 - ?.44) and Ingolstadt-Manching (?.44 - 19.4.45).

III. Gruppe:

Gruppenkommandeure:

Formed 18.10.43 in Pancevo from III./St.G.151 with:

Stab III./SG151 from Stab III./St.G.151
7./SG151 from 5./St.G.151
8./SG151 from 6./St.G.151

On 17.7.44 9./SG151 was formed from Fliegerstaffel Ritter.

In 8.44 8./SG151 became ?./SG151, and was reformed from Umschulstaffel G.d.S.

III./SG151 was disbanded 25.4.45.

Bases:

* 7./SG151 at Pancevo (10.43 - 28.1.44), Pardubitz (29.1.44 - 8.44), Hohenmauth (8.44 - 12.44), Bayreuth-Bindlach (12.44 - ?.45) and Amberg (?.45 - 25.4.45)

IV. Gruppe:

Gruppenkommandeure:

Formed 17.8.44 in Prossnitz from I./SG152 with:

Stab IV./SG151 from Stab I./SG152
10./SG151 from 1./SG152
11./SG151 from 6./SG151
12./SG151 from 2./SG152

Disbanded 15.4.45, except 12./SG151 which remained until the end.

Bases:

* 11./SG151 at Neu-Ulm (3.45 - 15.4.45); 12./SG151 at Rahmel (17.8.44 - 2.45) and Lübeck-Blankensee (2.45 - 5.45)

13./SG151:

Staffelkapitäne:

Formed 18.10.43 in Vel Gorica from Einsatzstaffel/St.G.151.

Bases:

14./SG151:

Staffelkapitäne:

Formed 17.8.44 in Alibunar from 3.(Pz)/SG152. Disbanded 16.10.44.

Reformed 11.11.44 in Berlin-Staaken from Erg.Staffel (Nacht)/KG51.

Bases:

15./SG151:

Staffelkapitäne:

Formed 6.7.44 in Hadju-Böszörmeny from 3./NSGr.3.

Bases:

The primary duties of SG151 was to provide replacement crews (incl. operational training), for the frontline Schlacht units, but during the war, several combat (Einsatz) units were formed from SG151.

On 19.3.44 Einsatzgruppe I./SG151 (29 aircraft) was formed at Pancevo, and Einsatzgruppe II./SG151 (20 aircraft) was formed at Gr.Beckereck (near Belgrade) for combat duties in the Balkans against Tito's partisan army. Both was disbanded 4.44.

In 12.44 an Einsatzstaffel I./SG151 was formed at Oels and Hanau for action against Russian formations at Litzmannstadt. Returned to Grove 2.45 and joined the rest of I./SG151.



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