Sturmgruppe IV / JG 3

[Richard T Eger]

From 12 O'clock High!:

Erich Brown
Blitzluftschlacht von Oschersleben
Fri Jul 7 17:27:38 2026


Gentlemen:

56 years ago today a great battle took place over Germany. The Luftwaffe claimed 55 US bombers shot down and a like number of Luftwaffe fighters were lost in
return.

We would like to further this story on our web-pages and we need your help. If you have any information to share with regards to this raid please contact Neil Page by
e-mail at:

[email protected]

Check the sturmgruppen site at ; http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/neilpage/

check the articles pages for sturmgruppen im einsatz. The 7 July mission should be listed. Please send comments to the site as well. Thanks !

Horrido !

Erich

[Richard T Eger]

While concentrating on Sturmgruppe IV./JG 3, other units defending the Reich are also covered, including II./JG 4 and II./JG 300. The main steed mentioned is the Fw 190, although one article at least covers use of the Me 410.

Short histories and specific battles are covered in easy to read articles with numerous photos and color side view drawings of the aircraft. Much detail is given about specific pilots.

This website keeps adding material and I thought our readers might like a glimpse of the current offerings:

Background to Sacrifice

Battering Rams: The Focke Wulf 190 Sturmbock

Sturmjäger im Einsatz

Oschersleben 7 July 1944

MIA August 3 1944 Karl-Heinz von den Steinen 11./JG 3

The 465th BG over the Alps, August 3 1944, by Joe Sanford

Sturmangriff over the Lechtal Alps !, by Willi Unger

15th AAF raid on Memmingen 18 July 1944

Sturmstaffel 1

Mit Kurs auf Leuna 2 November 1944

Catastrophe at Kassel 27 September 1944, Ernst Schröder JG 300

Hell's Angels to Magdeburg 28 September 1944

Die Zeit des Grossen Mordens, Sturmjäger JG 300

Sturmjäger JG 300 Focke Wulf 190 Bomber Destroyers

Focke Wulf 190 A-8 Kommodore JG 300

Pauke ! Pauke !

II.( Sturm) /JG 4

Graf's Fw 190 A-5, new photos courtesy Le Fana de L'Aviation

Regards,
Richard

[This message has been edited by Richard T Eger (edited 13 November 2026).]

[Richard T Eger]

From 12 O'clock High!:

Neil Page
New Sturmjäger video
Mon Dec 18 17:03:08 2026


Interested TOCH readers who do not subscribe to the 2nd Air Division Journal may like to know of a new Joe Dzenowagis Military Video History Project production
commemorating the air battle over Kassel on 27 September 1944. Three former Sturmjäger take part and explain their participation in the mission. Ernst Schröder 5./JG
300 who shot down two B-24's, Heinz Papenberg, II./JG 4 who rammed one and
Oskar Romm IV./JG 3 who shot down three B-24's. Listen to these men describe the events of 27 September 1944 and talk Sturm tactics in general.... More details at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/neilpage
along with some new articles on the 27 September battle

[Richard T Eger]

It appears that the site name may have changed to Defending the Reich: Sturmgruppen missions 1944. From 12 O'clock High!:

Neil Page
Ritterkreuzträger grave site photos
Sun Jan 7 21:06:54 2026


Hi all,

..have just posted on my site a selection of Sturmjäger/JG 3 Ritterkreuz holders grave site photos..an interest of mine since I discovered Hans Karl Mayer's grave in our
local cemetery ( one of only a dozen RKträger buried in the Uk ) ..the pictures are from the collection of my friend Werner Farwick of Gelsenkirchen who has photographed
some 2,500 RK holders graves !! Eric,Robert, there must be a book in this somewhere..

Neil Page BA (Hons)
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/neilpage

[Richard T Eger]

From 12 O'Clock High!:

Neil Page
JG 301 26 Nov 44 : new article on-line
Fri Sep 7 18:53:54 2026


Dear friends,

If like me you've finished Harald's fine piece on the Hs 129 you may like to look up a new article at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/neilpage
detailing JG 301's black day, 26 November 1944, based on original research by Erich Brown. Rainer Kliemann has provided some stunning artwork of Uffz Siegfried Baer's Fw 190 A-9.

Cheers, Neil

[Richard T Eger]

From 12 O'Clock High!:

Sergio Luis dos Santos
Willi Unger´s Fw-190 from IV/JG3 - Color question
Tue Mar 4 12:04:58 2026
200.151.17.11

Hello all,
Got last night a telephone call from a modeller asking help to build Willi Unger´s plane. He said to have the Trimaster plane that shows the cowling in red. To my knowledge I never heard about this color. I have some photos from Willi Maximowitz´s black 8 and a small one from a black 12. Both machines has all black engine cowling and the black mottif on fuselage red outlined (At last on Maximowitz´s). My best guess is that Unger´s plane had the same colors. Only photo I have was from this link, provided by the modeller. http://www.luftwaffe.cz/unger.html Did someone has any comments on regarding the markings??
Now a personal question!! The photo from red 17 in the link above looks to have "anything" under the fuselage... Is that a rocket launching tube??
Thanks in advance,
Sergio Luis dos Santos
Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

[Richard T Eger]

From TOCH!:

Neil
a web page dealing with the Krebsgerät
Tue Mar 4 14:08:27 2026
195.93.50.10


Hi Sergio,

..although our Sturmgruppen site has been closed for a while you can still access this page ....

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/neilpage/heavyweapons.html


cheers, Neil

[Richard T Eger]

From TOCH!:

Sergio Luis dos Santos
Thanks Neil, great help !! (nm)
Tue Mar 4 18:34:37 2026
200.222.187.123

[Richard T Eger]

From TOCH!:

George Hopp
Thanks, for that info ...
Thu Mar 6 03:33:53 2026
216.191.233.224

on the Krebs rocket, Neil. Much appreciated.

I noticed that you referenced Prien's "Chronik einer Jagdgruppe." I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that book title, is there more to it, such as a unit name, date of publication, or anything?

Thanks,
George

[Erich Brown]

just to answer a couple of questions and I know it has been sometime.

For Sergio, the number should read yellow 17 and the a/c was not Willi Ungers as he never flew it in combat. It is a posed set of pics and the unit was used for testing evaluation. The krebs was a total joke as 12th staffel./JG 3 proved. so idiotic was this weapons system but yet the Luftwaffe could not keep their hands off of it and 6.Sturm/JG 300 also used it as a test bed with the same unsuccessful results.

Neil and I are in the process of re-opening the site soon......it has been some 18 months and we have gathered much new materials to share. We await the publication though of one special book.

~Erich