 It handed over its aircraft to the other two "Gruppen" and then relocated by train to Barth, Germany to rest and re-equip.The personnel there were renamed III./LG 1 on 1 May 1943.The group was reformed on 10 June at Stalino from personnel taken from the "Transportfliegergruppe" 10, and K.Gr.z.b.V.5.