Luftwaffe Base Locations

[Richard T Eger]

From 12 O'clock High!:

Andreas Brekken
Please help me with some locations!
Thu Nov 30 13:37:02 2000


Hi, all.

Although we have planned a cross referenced name database for locations etc at the LWAG site, it is not up and running yet.

I need help with some names, have tried through Expedia, but it doesn't help me that much.

I do believe the locations might be Germanized names for places in the Baltic region..... or Hungary/former Yugoslavia??

Here goes:

Dorpat (Tartu, Estonia?)

Dno ??? (Today: Duino, Italy???)

Pustoska (Is this the Lake Peipsi?? also Estonia?)

Solcy (No idea!!)

Idriza ??? (Today: Idrija, Slovenia ???)

I have of course read these names and probably seen them on maps too, but right now I can't "find" the locations, or at least I am not sure enough to say "That's it!!!".

Andreas

[Richard T Eger]

From TOH!:

Kari Lumppio
Location names
Thu Nov 30 14:22:47 2000


Hei!

Dorpat is like you wroteTartu, Estonia

Dno is a town in Russia.

Pustoska is a town IIRC SE the Lake Peipsi some 50-100 km, Russia.

Solcy Like you I have no idea.

Idriza is a town in Russia SE Lake Peipsi too.


I was already in the progress of making of map of Baltics (Estonia, Latvia and part of Leningrad region) where I was collecting location names in German (current versions
were already there in the base map). Then I got tip of a book which has it already done for me:

Beiträge zur Militär- und Kriegsgeschichte, Band 5, Stuttgart 1963.

The book has as an attachment a map which shows just the region I mentioned and also all (or the most at least) the airfields used by Luftflotte 1 (in 1944 only?). The book
has three long articles of which one is titled "Der Einsatz der Luftwaffe im Bereich der Heeresgruppe Nord von Ende Juni bis Mitte Oktober 1944" by Karl Köhler.
(ANYONE KNOWS MORE OF ARTICLES/BOOKS OF THIS SUBJECT? Please notify me too, KL)

I found the book in the library of Helsinki University. You were also in university (?) so maybe it's available also there in Norway. If no joy I could provide you with a scan or
paper copy.

The map has IIRC all the towns metioned above but Solzy.


For similar name problems here is couple of URLs which may help:

"An Index of German-Polish and Polish-German names of the localities in Poland & Russia. ATS notes." http://www.kosbab.org/Miscellaneous/German-Polish%20localities.htm

"FEEFHS MAP ROOM - Background and MAP INDEX" (all kind of old maps) http://feefhs.org/maps/indexmap.html


Hope this helps,

Kari

[Richard T Eger]

From TOH!:

Andreas Brekken
As always, very grateful (n/t)
Fri Dec 1 07:58:29 2000

[Richard T Eger]

From TOH!:

Christian Kirsch
Little Towns
Thu Nov 30 15:35:50 2000


Hallo

Dorpat, in the west of the Peipusses
Dno, in the west of Starja Rusa (south of the Ilmensee)
Solcy, or Solzy is in the west of the Ilmensee
Idriza is in the west of Welikije Luki, on the line Dünaburg-Welikije Luki

Christian

[Richard T Eger]

From TOH!:

Terrence Daniels
Other names of interest
Fri Dec 1 08:43:22 2000


I've run into the same situation... Trying to connect older Germanized names with modern places. There are a number of places listed in my grandfather's logbook entries or
on the backs of his photos that I can't place... For example:

Aserzi - Somewhere in Russia, near Smolensk, this is all I know.

Even operations in France involved many different names... Perhaps later today (when it's not 3 AM with me very tired) I'll post the French names and see if they're
match-able to anything.

[Richard T Eger]

From TOH!:

Chuck Beatty
Luftwaffe Base Locations
Sun Dec 10 05:56:22 2000


Andreas: The locations named by you may be found on the map shown on Page 11 of the publication, "JG 54, A Photographic History of the Grunherzjager" by Werner
Held, Hannes Trautloft, and Ekkehard Bob. Location numbers are in parenthesis: Dorpat (124), Dno (139), Idriza (143), and Szoltzy (137). I could not identify Pustoska. All
of these locations were in the Soviet Union, and served as bases for JG 54. I hope that this info helps you.