Geschwader and sometimes a fourth or even a fifth gruppe was added to single engine fighter geschwader. On several occasions, day fighter Geschwader or...

(OKL—Air Force High Command) ordered the formation JG 7. Initially it was planned to equip the Geschwader with the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 radial engine powered...

Geschütz – cannon, gun. Geschützführer – gun captain / commander / layer. Geschwader – originally and literally a naval "squadron" and, therefore, equivalent...

pattern. In such cases, the group is equivalent to a US wing, a German Geschwader or a French escadron. During the early stages of World War I in France...

languages, equivalent air force units equivalent to a US wing include: Geschwader in the German Luftwaffe; Aviatsionniy Polk (Aviation Regiment) in Russia;...

Squadron Escadron (France) Staffel (Germany) Wing (RAF) Group (USAAF/USAF) Geschwader (Germany) Régiment/Escadre (France) Aviation regiment (USSR/Russia) Group...

September 1939. By the summer of 1939, the Luftwaffe had twenty-eight Geschwader (wings). The Luftwaffe also operated a paratrooper force known as the...

Adolf to continue flying. The expansion of the Luftwaffe and his own Geschwader (wing) flooded the administration officers and Galland's medical report...

Jagdgeschwader 52 (JG 52) was a German World War II fighter Geschwader (wing) that exclusively used the Messerschmitt Bf 109 throughout the war. The unit...

fighter bomber squadron (2. Staffel/JaBo-Geschwader).  Austria Austrian Air Force 1. Staffel/JaBo-Geschwader (1. Sta/Jabogeschw; "Jagdbombergeschwader"):...

Osterkamp briefly led the Geschwader again during Mölders' convalescence. On 7 August 1940, Mölders returned to the Geschwader without medical clearance...

equipped with Dornier Do 217, Junkers Ju 188 and Junkers Ju 88 bombers. The Geschwader bombed Britain, the Eastern Front, North Africa, Italy and Normandy. While...

week of May 1942. It did so as the Luftwaffe's only close-air support geschwader (wing). The Ju 87 groups carried out close support operations early in...

Two Geschwader, Schlachtgeschwader 9 and Schlachtgeschwader 10 were formed to deal with the threat. It was not until March 1944 that the Geschwaders were...

Edert, 27 July 1940 – 7 February 1941 Oberstleutnant Karl Christ, 7 February 1941 – 7 March 1942 Oberstleutnant Walter Sigel, 7 March 1942 – 1 April 1943...

temporary Fliegergeschwader 100 at the time of the Munich Crisis. The Geschwader (wing) had been created as an emergency measure, equipped with obsolete...

June 1917) At various times, several different German military aviation Geschwader (literally "squadrons"; equivalent to Commonwealth air force "groups"...

place of filming is the "Fiala-Fernbrugg" garrison, still used by HS Geschwader 2 and FlAR2/3rd Bat. of the Austrian Army. The big rocky mountain in the...

Jagdgeschwader 53 - or as it was better known, the "Pik As" (Ace of Spades) Geschwader - was one of the oldest German fighter units of World War II with its...

(Green Hearts) after their fuselage emblem, a large green heart. The Geschwader was originally formed in Thüringen, nicknamed "the green heart of Germany"...

Herbert Ihlefeld led the Geschwader. The formation was mixed; Stab., (headquarters flight or Stabschwarm, attached to every Geschwader), I. and II./JG 1 operated...

unit on 22 July 1958, was phased out of service on 13 July 1966, the Geschwader having accumulated over 80,000 flight hours with the planes. Eleven months...

formed part of Hugo Sperrle's Luftflotte 3. The total strength of the Geschwader was 80 Ju 87s with 55 operational. First group began using airfields around...

for the small number of captured B-17 Flying Fortresses operated by the Geschwader. Me 323 V16 Prototype, powered by six unitized 1,340 PS Jumo 211R engines...

escorted by JG 27 Bf 109s, StG 77s 52 Ju 87s targeted RAF Warmwell. The Geschwader failed to find its target, dropping its bombs at random. The other Ju 87...

affect the fighters in particular. By 14 September, the Luftwaffe's Bf 109 Geschwader possessed only 67% of their operational crews against authorised aircraft...

adjutant made the recommendation. In the Luftwaffe the lowest level was the Geschwader and in the Kriegsmarine the respective flotilla was authorized to make...

mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=8418 US Air Force Factsheet: 702nd Munitions Support Squadron 50°10′26″N 7°03′48″E / 50.1739°N 7.0633°E / 50.1739; 7.0633...

1000 men of Jagdgeschwader 27 (JG 27) Afrika, a World War II Luftwaffe Geschwader, famous for service in the North African Campaign supporting the Afrika...

Marseille was passed over for promotion and was now the sole Fähnrich in the Geschwader. This was a humiliation for him, suspecting that his abilities were being...