Luftwaffe Special Transport Units (1944-45)
This unit was based in Muhldorf, Bavaria, which also included helicopters including:
- Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drachen
- Flettner Fl 265
- Flettner 282B Kolibri,
For operations on the Western and Eastern front, the airfields in France (West) and East Prussia undertook some of the special liaisons, personnel transport, rescue of wounded personnel, observation/air patrol and other similar missions in the last days of the conflict.
- Transportstaffeln 40 (East area)
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