Hi all,

just playing around with winter schemes on these Stuka Doras of Kommando Jungclaussen, the only remaining
stuka detachment in the stalingrad cauldron. Despite of worsest conditions the handful of pilots - volunteers of II./StG2 under leadership of Lt. Heinz Jungclaussen (staffelkapit?n of 6./StG2) - were hammering the attacking russians until their base at Pitomnik airfield was overrun in mid january 1943. All other stuka units already withdraw during december 1942. Here's an aircraft of 6./StG2 with the Bamberg knight emblem adopted by II./StG2 in early 1942. Note the very unusual staffelletter O, introduced when a new II./StG2 was formed in january 1942. The reason for choosing the O instead of the common P is unknown. The 'old' II./StG2 was redesignated III./StG3 before and carried on with service in northern africa.
The white winter camo colour was washable and weathered fast with the green splinter camo shining through in many spots.

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Armin

YEEEEEESSSS!! What a fine looking winter white wash camouflage! Top Notch!

YEEEEEESSSS!! What a fine looking winter white wash camouflage! Top Notch!

Emel

+1 I really like your treatment of the white stuff.

Indeed, a great skin. Is there any information available on the missions flown by the unit from inside the Stalingrad pocket?

Simply the best I ever seen..
Like to ask for your permission to use the second images for a A&A T-shirt ?

Best regards
Odin1one

Thanks for your positive replies - i am not quite satisfied, therefore it is still a W.I.P. Will take some time until the skins are finished.

@Juri_JS
Platzschutzstaffel Pitomnik (airfield protection squadron) pilot Gr?nberg mentioned their last furious attacks (six stukas with the horns/sirens of jericho ) on the morning of january 16th 1943, when the russians were about to storm the airfield, in his diary.
Unfortunately found no mission/strength records or any info about pilots, planes, losses or exact activities so far. Very few pics. Posted for infos at luftwaffe experten message board and luftarchiv.de some weeks ago - no replies so far.
I have ordered some books, i. e. Holger Nauroth's well
documentation 'Stukageschwader II Immelmann' for rent via my local library. Hope these will contain some details. Will let you know.

@Odin1one
No problem, permission granted.

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Armin

@Juri_JS
Platzschutzstaffel Pitomnik pilot Gr?nberg mentioned their last furious attacks (six stukas) on the morning of january 16th 1943, when the russians were about to storm the airfield, in his diary.
Unfortunately found no mission/strength records or any info about pilots, planes, losses or exact activities so far. Very few pics. Posted for infos at luftwaffe experten message board and luftarchiv.de some weeks ago - no replies so far.
I have ordered some books, i. e. Holger Nauroth's well
documentation 'Stukageschwader II Immelmann' for rent via my local library. Hope these will contain some details. Will let you know.

cheruskerarmin

The mission on 16 January 1943 is part of my Platzschutzstaffel Pitomnik mission pack, because Werner Lucas in his Bf-109 also attacked the Russians. The Ju-87s only appear as AI planes.

I hope you can find more information. It would be interesting to do a historical 'Kommando Jungclaussen' mission pack.

They are spectacular Armin, on another thread you said you do not know a lot about aircraft.
I would disagree as I am sure everyone here would my friend, you have to be one of the worlds most leading,knowledgeable historians on Luftwaffe units.
ATB Alan

Thanks duggy - it's true i know a lot of historical stuff and i got very good contacts to expert historians inbetween. But this doesn't refer to technical details of WWII aviation - and the bandwith of aircraft types.
Something about Knight's Cross awarded Heinz Jungclaussen (the name is written wrong without the g) on here:

http://ww2eagles.blogspot.de/2011/03/heinz-junclaussen-knights-cross-holder.html


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Armin

Those look great Armin. I can see that water based
white just flaking off.
A fine looking addition for Russian scenarios