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Active
  
1941 – 1945

Branch
  
Luftwaffe

Role
  
Air superiority

Founded
  
1941

Country
  
Nazi Germany

Type
  
Night Fighter

Size
  
Air Force Wing

Engagement
  
Nachtjagdgeschwader 3 Nachtjagdgeschwader 3 NJG 3

Similar
  
Nachtjagdgeschwader 2, Nachtjagdgeschwader 4, Lehrgeschwader 1, Kampfgeschwader 3, Schlachtgeschwader 1

Nachtjagdgeschwader 3 (NJG 3) was a Luftwaffe night fighter-wing of World War II. NJG 3 was formed on 29 September 1941 in Stade from Stab./Zerstörergeschwader 26.

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Commanding officers

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  • Major Johann Schalk, 1 December 1941 – 1 August 1943
  • Oberst Helmut Lent, 1 August 1943 – 7 October 1944
  • Oberst Günther Radusch, 12 November 1944 – 8 May 1945
    • Gruppenkommandeure
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  • Hauptmann Günther Radusch, 7 October 1940 – 2 October 1941
  • Major Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld, 1 October 1942 – 31 May 1943
  • Hauptmann Paul Szameitat, 14 December 1943 – 2 January 1944
  • Major Werner Husemann, 4 January 1944 – 8 May 1945
  • Major Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, 15 August 1943 – November 1943
  • Oberstleutnant Heinz Nacke, 1 November 1941 – 21 April 1943
  • Hauptmann Rudolf Sigmund, 15 August 1943 – 4 October 1943

    • Surviving aircraft

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    Two aircraft that served with NJG 3 are displayed together at the Royal Air Force Museum London, one of the two sites of the Royal Air Force Museum. These are Messerschmitt Bf 110 G Werk Nr. 730301, which was surrendered to the British at the end of the war in 1945, and Junkers Ju 88 R-1, Werk Nr. 360043, which came into British hands in 1943. Both aircraft are almost unique - each is one of only two intact survivors of their type.

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    References

    Nachtjagdgeschwader 3 Wikipedia
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