Sources on JG 52/Erich Hartmann?

[Siv5122]

I've been thinking about making a scripted campaign based on Erich Hartmann, but am struggling to find specific information on missions and bases of his unit JG 52. I got as fat as seeing operations near Kerch in the Kuban region, but that's as far as I've been able to get so far. If anyone has more detailed sources on this, that would be greatly appreciated  .

[busdriver]

1 hour ago, 361st_Siv5122 said:

I've been thinking about making a scripted campaign based on Erich Hartmann, but am struggling to find specific information on missions and bases of his unit JG 52. 

 

Have you checked here?

[Siv5122]

1 hour ago, busdriver said:

 

Have you checked here?

Thanks! This helps quite a bit.

[Juri_JS]

If you can read German, this should help you:

http://www.jg52.net/category/kriegstagebuch/

 

Unfortunately the war diary for 1943 is incomplete.

 

 

You should also look at Hartmanns victory claims list on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Hartmann

 

In most cases the list has the location of his victories, so you will know in which region his Staffel operated on a certain day.  But don't trust the plane type information, German pilots were really bad at identifying Soviet aircraft. Many of the LaGG-3s in the list were certainly Yaks. 

Edited October 20, 2020 by Juri_JS