 "Gefechtsverband Kuhlmey" Detachment Kuhlmey stuka pilots in Immola airfield Finland 1944

Detachment Kuhlmey participated in large battles of summer 1944, during the Finnish-Soviet Continuation War. When the Soviet Red Army launched its fourth strategic offensive on 9 June 1944
The unit flew some 2,700 missions against the enemy and dropped 770 tonnes of bombs on the enemy. It destroyed over 150 Soviet aircraft, about 200 tanks, dozens of bridges and transport vessels. 23 of the pilots died and 24 were wounded in battle. The unit lost 41 of its aircraft

Stuka pilots

On a rare clear day Junkers Ju 52 three-engine
transports wing their way to Stalingrad for a supply drop.
The German soldier knew these rugged aircraft as the
"Tante Ju" (Aunt Ju) or "Eiserne Anna" (Iron Annie) or
simply as "Judula" (Julia). The lined-up vehicles may
have been part of the failed December 1942
Wintergewitter (Winter Storm) relief effort.