Foreign Contingents
JG 52 was also home to attachments from other Axis air forces' fighter arms. A Staffel (13(Slow.)/JG52) of attached Slovak Air Force pilots claimed 215 air kills flying Bf-109G's during a tour of operations on the Eastern Front in 1943, while Croatian pilots, flying as part of the Croatian Air Force Legion, formed 15(Kroat.)/JG52, serving periodically with JG 52 between October 1941 and mid 1944, claiming over 300 kills in 5,000 missions.
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