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

WALTER SCHUCK Christmas celebration in Esbjerg, 25 December 1941. Secondfrom left is Walter Schuck. Next: Werner Schu­ macher. Standing to the right is Obergefreiter Kurt Scharmacher. be the last time JG 5 was dealt trouble because of the Tirpitz. . . While the Nordic winter slowly came to an end, the Luft­ waffe units in Norway - subordinated to Generaloberst Hans-Jurgen Stumpff’s Luftflotte 5 - were reorganised. In early 1942, Luftflotte 5’s fighter units were renum­ bered into the new JG 5. Major Gotthard Handrick, the Gold Medal winner in modern penthatlon at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, was appointed Geschwader­ kommodore. Since the outbreak of the war with the Soviet Union in 1941, one detachment of Luftflotte 5 - commanded by Fliegerfiihrer Nordost - had been responsible for air operations on the extreme northern flank of the Eastern Front. At Fliegerfiihrer Nordost’s disposal were bomb­ ers, dive-bombers, reconnaissance aircraft and a single Jagdgruppe. The latter received the new designation II./ JG 5, with Oberleutnant Horst Carganico’s 6. Staffel as the most important Staffel. The new III./JG 5 was formed around Hauptmann Graf von Sponeck’s 7./JG 5. A very experienced fighter pilot was brought from JG 54 on the Eastern Front to assume command of III./JG 5 - Hauptmann Gunther Scholz. In April 1942, III./JG 5’s Stabsschwarm and the 7th and 8th Staffeln were sent into the fire in the Eastern Front’s extreme north. On 22 April 1942, Unteroffizier Walter Schuck landed at the new base at Petsamo. T