Jürgen Zapf, Luftwaffe airfield historian

[Richard T Eger]

From 12 O'Clock High!:

John Levesley
Units at Friztlar 1940/41
Wed Feb 4 19:55:09 2004
195.26.63.38

I've just been given two maps found in the map room at Fritzlar in 1945 by an officer of the USAAF 404th Fighter Group. One dates from 1940 and is a German language publication based on the British Ordnance Survey map of central London with all the significant targets highlighted and described. The other dates from 1941 and is a German language over-print on a mosaic of several British Aeronautical topographial maps pasted onto an oilskin sheet. The maps show most of central, southern and south western England.

Can anyone please tell me which Luftwaffe units were at Fritzlar in 1940/41 please, on the assumption the maps were used by the Luftwaffe units contemporary with the maps

[Richard T Eger]

From TOCH!:

Steve W.
Fritzlar/Hesse
Wed Feb 4 22:40:33 2004
152.163.252.132

Lies just southwest of Kassel. The historian who keeps a data base on which units were on which airfield and when is Jürgen Zapf, who is currently writing a series of books on Luftwaffe airfields by provinces, regions and states in a "Then and Now" format. I don't know if he has completed and published the volume on Hesse yet, but I'm sure he has the information on Fritzlar in his data base. He frequently answers questions like this over on the so-called "Luftwaffe Bullet Board" ( http://www.luftarchiv.de/bullet-board/ ), a German-language website. Unfortunately, I don't think you will be able to connect those maps with a particular unit unless the unit's identity is written on them. It would be like saying "the hat left in the restaurant belongs to Bob because Bob ate there once." Luftwaffe air units moved frequently during the war - here today gone tomorrow. The air bases in Germany had a constant turnover of units.

S.W.