Rybin, Y. Luftwaffe ace Walter Schuck researched / Christer Bergstrom, Yuriy Rybin. - Sweden : [s. l.], 2019. - 190 p. : ill.

WALTER SCHUCK The reaction from the German leadership was mer­ ciless: Generalleutnant Graf von Sponeck was sacked from his command and arrested. In a special military court, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring - who was both the Luftwaffe’s C-in-C and the second man in Germany - sentenced Generalleutnant Graf von Sponeck to death penalty. On 29 December 1941, an order from Reichsmarschall Goring reached the Erganzungsgruppe/JG 3: Hauptmann Graf von Sponeck’s Staffel was to be partitioned from the Erganzungsgruppe. Instead, the Staffel received the new designation 7./JG 5 as a full combat unit. The wire from Goring instructed Hauptmann Graf von Sponeck to transfer his Staffel to Stavanger in Norway “without delay”. All furloughs were cancelled and those of the Staffel who were home on leave had to be called back to the unit, their leave discontinued. T