Wehrpass KG200 Help

[Ian Thomson]

Hello all, I have a wehrpass to a member of KG200 I`m needing a bit of assistance with, I think I`m reading it right, the bottom entry is 4th Gruppe of Kampfgeschwader 200, but what does 4 F.B.K. stand for? And can anyone help read the handwriting in red please.

Cheers
Ian

[JYN]

Fbk

Hi Ian,

FBK is for

Flughafenbetriebstkompanie. Primary role of this Coy is repair and service for all the KG 200' planes.

Helmut Weitze has on his site a bunch of FBK WPs at very fair prices with nice units (mostly KG.51 & 30) and campaigns as Africa, Sicily, Normandy. I think he probably found a trunk of WPs ??

Jean-Yves

[JYN]

Examples

I get this one from him for 30 or 40 Euros. A stabgefreiter who earned the Rumanian Medal. Have a look on the campaigns. Even, if he was in a maintenance unit, he did participate at nice campaigns. No ?! Herr Weitze has a bunch of guys like this one...





Jean-Yves

[Ian Thomson]

Thanks for the information Jean-Yves, my man was a "fitter" but the unit he was with as part of KG200 was involved with the manned equivalent of the V1 flying bomb. As far as is known, never used operationally, the weapon was dropped from an HE111 and guided to its target by its pilot who would bail out at the last minute! Amazingly at the end of the war the unit had a hundred or so trained pilots. KG200 was one of the most secretive units of WW2, most of there records were destroyed at the wars end. One of there former COs, Werner Baumbach, awarded Knights Cross with Oak Leaves, commanded the unit October 44 to March 45, he didn`t even mention the unit in his autobiography published after the war.

Cheers
Ian

[JYN]

Hi Ian,

There is a book which is announced for two years on this unit at Classic Publications.

You probably did visit this site already

http://www.ww2.dk/air/kampf/kg200.htm

Jean-Yves