{"id":179,"date":"2012-04-08T15:59:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T14:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/?page_id=179"},"modified":"2018-03-29T15:08:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T14:08:20","slug":"kampfgeschwader-100-wiking-war-over-the-north-sea-1939-1940","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.chronicles-of-the-luftwaffe.de\/?page_id=179","title":{"rendered":"Kampfgeschwader 100 “Wiking” – War over the North Sea (1939 \u2013 1940)"},"content":{"rendered":"

On November 18th, 1939, the Luftnachrichten-Abteilung 100<\/em> was renamed to Kampfgruppe 100 (K. Gr. 100)<\/em> and was relocated from the Luftwaffe signal corps to the bomber units[1. Balke, Ulf (1981): p. 25].<\/p>\n

Only a couple of days later, the Kampfgruppe 100<\/em> relocated from the K\u00f6then<\/em> airfield to the airfield of Rotenburg\/W\u00fcmme<\/a>[2. Zapf, J\u00fcrgen (2011): p. 416].<\/p>\n

In January and February 1940, K. Gr. 100<\/em> was flying anti-ship missions over the North Sea and up to the Orkney Islands.<\/p>\n

On February 13th, 1940 the wing suffered a significant loss: the wing commander’s aircraft was shot down over the River Thames, killing Oberst Stollbrock[3. Balke, Ulf (1981): p. 26] and his crew of four[4. Balke, Ulf (1981): p. 364].<\/p>\n

Only two days later, K. Gr. 100<\/em> left Rotenburg<\/em> and relocated to the airfield of L\u00fcneburg[5. Zapf, J\u00fcrgen (2011): p. 288],<\/sup>[6. Balke, Ulf (1981): p. 26]<\/em>. From L\u00fcneburg<\/em>, the group flew several anti ship missions over the North Sea, until it was relocated to the airfield at Nordholz<\/em> in early April[7. Balke, Ulf (1981): p. 28] for preparations of Unternehmen “Weser\u00fcbung”<\/em> – the assault on Denmark and Norway. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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