The Platzschutzstaffel (airfield defence squadron), commanded by Hauptmann Rudolf Germeroth, was a detachment of volunteers from Jagdgeschwader 3, based at Pitomnik airfield inside the Stalingrad pocket between 12 December 1942 and 16 January 1943. The units main task was to protect the airfield and the transport planes bringing supplies and evacuating the wound, but also free hunt and reconnaissance escort missions were flown. Due to the lack of spare parts and the harsh conditions at Stalingrad often not more than three Bf-109 were serviceable at the same time and many missions were flown by just two planes. Nonetheless the units pilots claimed more than 100 Soviet aircraft shot down during this time.
On 16 January 1943 Pitomnik was captured by the Red Army and the men of the Platzschutzstaffel escaped to Gumrak airfield. Over the following days the pilots were evacuated by plane, but most of the ground crews were left behind and became prisoners when the 6th Army surrendered on 2 February 1943.

I have tried to make the missions as historically accurate as possible. For example I used the Gradnetz-coordinates from the official Luftwaffe victory reports to determine the locations of air battles shown in the missions and some of them are based on the personal records of Kurt Ebener, who scored more than 30 victories during his time at Pitomnik.

A special thanks to Cheruskerarmin, who created the Bf-109 skins for the mission pack and provided a lot of useful information.

The missions were created in the unmodded version of the game, but they will also work in the modded version.




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