Kampfgeschwader 53 "Legion Condor" (KG 53; English: Condor Legion) was a Luftwaffe bomber wing during World War II. Its units participated on all of the...

The Condor Legion (German: Legion Condor) was a unit of military personnel from the air force and army of Nazi Germany’s Wehrmacht which served with the...

According to Scherzer on 5 April 1944 as Staffelkapitän in the I./Kampfgeschwader 53 "Legion Condor". According to Scherzer as Commander of Räumboot R-17 in the...

Scherzer as observer in the 6./Kampfgeschwader 53 "Legion Condor". According to Scherzer as Geschwaderkommodore of Kampfgeschwader 3. According to Scherzer...

and Staffelkapitän and technical officer of the Stab II./Kampfgeschwader 53 "Legion Condor". According to Scherzer as pilot and observer in the 1...

According to Scherzer on 19 June 1940 as Staffelkapitän of the 3./Kampfgeschwader 30. According to Scherzer as Oberleutnant and adjutant of the I./Sturzkampfgeschwader...

/SS-Flak-Abteilung SS-Division "Reich". According to Scherzer as pilot in the 1./Kampfgeschwader 26. According to Scherzer as SS-Hauptsturmführer of the Reserves and...

Unteroffizier. According to Scherzer as Staffelführer of the 5./Kampfgeschwader 53 "Legion Condor". According to Scherzer as leader of the II./SS-Polizei-Regiment...

of a Kampfgruppe. According to Scherzer as Staffelkapitän of the 6./Kampfgeschwader 6. According to Scherzer as Oberstleutnant. According to Scherzer as...

Leutnant (war officer). According to Scherzer as observer in the 8./Kampfgeschwader 26. According to Scherzer as machine gunner in the 4./Grenadier-Regiment...

/Kampfgeschwader 77. According to Scherzer as pilot in the Aufklärungsstaffel 1.(F)/121. According to Scherzer as pilot in the 9./Jagdgeschwader 53. According...

According to Scherzer as Zugführer (platoon leader) in the 6./Grenadier-Regiment 53. Williamson & Bujeiro 2004, pp. 3–4. Fellgiebel 2000, p. 4. Fellgiebel 2000...

Wiener Neustadt. KG 155 was replaced by the formation of Kampfgeschwader 53 "Legion Condor" (KG 53) in January 1939, being equipped also with He 111s. The...

Scherzer as pilot in the III./Kampfgeschwader 2. According to Scherzer as pilot and observer in the I./Kampfgeschwader 4 "General Wever". According to...

/Jagdgeschwader 77. According to Scherzer as adjutant in SS-Kavallerie-Regiment 53. According to Scherzer as pilot in the 7./Jagdgeschwader 52. According to...

of the Reserves. According to Scherzer as Staffelführer of the 2./Kampfgeschwader 77. Walther-Peer Fellgiebel, author of Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes...

9. Staffel (9th squadron) of Kampfgeschwader 253 (KG 253—253rd Bomber Wing), a unit which later became Kampfgeschwader 4 "General Wever" (KG 4—4th Bomber...

30 December 1942 as Fliegerführer Nord and Geschwaderkommodore of Kampfgeschwader 26. According to Scherzer as group leader in the 2./Aufklärungs-Abteilung...

transferred from the army to the Luftwaffe. Sperrle was given command of the Condor Legion in November 1936 and fought with the expeditionary force in the Spanish...

1944 — Kurt Unruh Luftwaffe 13-LOberleutnant Pilot in the 2./Kampfgeschwader 53 "Legion Condor" 29 February 1944 — — Johannes Unruhe Heer 10-HOberfeldwebel...

Recipients (AKCR), the presentation date by Fellgiebel. Fellgiebel 2000, pp. 53–104. Scherzer 2007, pp. 117–186. Scherzer 2007, pp. 110–116, 128. "Reichsgesetzblatt...

Nazi Germany, in 1934. In 1938 he volunteered for service in Germany's Condor Legion, then supporting General Francisco Franco's Nationalist side in the...

German rearmament and conscription would be announced on 16 March. The Condor Legion, a Luftwaffe detachment sent to aid Nationalist forces in the Spanish...

Poland. Kampfgeschwader 1 (KG 1), Kampfgeschwader 4 (KG 4), Kampfgeschwader 26 (KG 26), Kampfgeschwader 27 (KG 27) and Kampfgeschwader 53 (KG 53). All,...

/KG 3 (also known as I./KG.5) (Venlo) I./KG 53 "Legion Condor" (Gilze en Rijen) III./KG 53 "Legion Condor" (Gilze en Rijen) Luftwaffe V-1 fixed/mobile...

Luftwaffe. In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, he volunteered for the Condor Legion and flew ground attack missions in support of the Nationalists under...

II. During the Spanish Civil War, he flew with Kampfgruppe 88 of the Condor Legion as an air observer. During World War II, he became a fighter ace credited...

1, which was named in his honor after his death. He served with the Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War with the Jagdgruppe 88. He claimed nine...

Luftwaffe after Hitler's rise to power in 1933. He served as part of the Condor Legion which supported the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. During this...

mass-produced. The first Luftwaffe units to receive the bomber were Kampfgeschwader 153 (KG 153), and KG 155. Aufklärungsgruppe (F)/122, a reconnaissance...