On 15-8-39, 1st group StuG 76 under her CiC Hauptmann Walter Sigel started from Cottbus airfield to show high-ranking Luftwaffe officers an exercice in dive bombing of an entire Stuka-group at Neuhammer paving ground. Weather forecast reported a bottom cloud layer of 900 m above ground, so good sight below that altitude.

At 6:00 am 2nd Staffel with Hptm. Sigel was the first to dive, but after getting out of the clouds, Sigel noticed that he is only approx. 100 m over ground due to unexpected ground fog. He orderd to "pull" and succeeded; he made it just some meteres above ground.

The rest of the 2nd Staffel, lead by Oberleutnant Goldmann crashed with nine JU-87s

3rd Staffel, who was next, lost "some" (=4 ?) Ju-87s

1st Staffel, under Oberleutnant Peltz who was the last in dive bomb, broke off the dive; no losses.

Altogether 13 JU-87 with 26 men rammed into earth that day under the eyes of General Major Richthofen.

Hope this helps.

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