At the beginning of November 1938 , Lehr-Verband/Aufklärungsgruppe Jüterbog ( Unit Training Group / Surveillance Jüterbog ) reshaped into III Gruppe ( AUFKLARUNG ) / Lehrgeschwader 2 . New unit consists of three Staffeln ( Staffel 7 , 8 and 9 ) and incorporated into LG 2 . Gruppe Two other of the LG 2 is I ( Jagd ) / LG 2 and II ( Schlacht ) / LG 2 . the first is the unit hunters , while the second unit of air -to-ground support .
7 . ( F ) / LG 2 into action for the first time in Poland by flying aircraft Dornier Do 17 P -type and M. After the Battle of Britain took place , then this unit is upgraded aircraft into a Messerschmitt Bf 110 C - 5 . In this phase also distinctive unit insignia , a " Teufelskopf " ( Chief Satan ) is small , ranging affixed to the planes they belong . 7 . ( F ) / LG based in Grimbergen , Belgium , up to February 12, 1941 when he was pulled from the air battle against England to prepare for new attacks against Greece and Yugoslavia .
On March 24, 1941 , 7 . ( F ) / LG transferred to Krumovo ( Bulgaria ) through Popest ( Romania ) , and on April 2, set off again towards the airfield Sofia - Vrazdebna . There Bf 110 aircraft it gets a touch of yellow color as a marker of identity . This color is massaged into the nasal passages , elevators , and tail . German forces begin invasion of the Balkans dated 6 April 1941 . Having a mission in Greece and southern Yugoslavia after , 7 . ( F ) / LG also included supporting the invasion of Crete in the operation of their bases in Athens - Kalamaki .
Campaign in Russia include 7 . ( F ) / LG which operates in the south where , in the summer of 1941 , this unit doing reconnaissance missions to support the forward movement Panzergruppe 1 with planes Bf 110 E - 3 and C - 5 ( also some Bf 109 E - 6 ) remaining . In September 1941, the unit was temporarily withdrawn from the front line and sent to Breslau to rest and re-equipped . In December of the same year 7 . ( F ) / LG resumed operations , flying from Mariupol on the Azov Sea , west of Rostov . In February 1942 he was transferred to Stalino , and in Maretnya this unit was renamed 7 . ( H ) / LG 2 . In May 1942 he was placed under the command of Stab Nagr 12 . In November , a new but old Staffel to while combined with 3 . ( H ) / 31 Tactical Reconnaissance Group to form Fleischmann who then operates on top of their base at Stalingrad Golubinskaya ( north Kalach ) . Dated December 11, 1942 the airfield had to be abandoned in order to avoid the advance of the approaching Russian army .
Most aircraft belonging to this unit then becomes a victim because only a few can be flown Bf 110 . In late November 1942 , 7 . ( H ) / LG 2 and 3 . ( H ) / 31 have only stayed five aircraft in their inventory , and in January 1943 this number shrank again be three ! In late February 1943 , 7 . ( H ) / LG 2 disappeared from circulation after the disaster wiped out in the Battle of Stalingrad .
Staffelkapitäne :
March 1941 - October 29, 1941 : Hauptmann Hans - Eberhard Schäfer
30 Desember 1941-36 March 1942 : Hauptmann Karl - Gustav Schmidt - Kabis
February 11, 1942 - 26 May 1942 Major Paul Lube ( as well as the commander Nagr . 9 )
June 1942 - September 1942 : Rudolf von Hauptmann Spankeren
September 1942 - 6 November 1942 : Oberleutnant Robert Kneifel
15 November 1942 - January 1943 : Oberleutnant Richard Clemens