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Pilots JG27.9 $Erbo Graf von Kageneck 01

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Photo 02: Erbo van Kageneck seated in the cockpit of a Bf-110.

Pilots JG27.9 $Erbo Graf von Kageneck 03

Photo 03: Oblt. von Kageneck photographed in the Winter of 1940/41 during a shooting expedition.

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Photo 04: The Fuhrer presenting the Oak Leaves to Hptm. Gordon Gollob (left) and Oblt. Erbo Graf von Kageneck, Rastenburg, 26 October 1941.

Messerschmitt Bf-109E JG27.9 (Br1+) $Erbo Graf von Kageneck Gela, Sicily 1941 01

Photo 01: Oblt. van Kageneck warming up the engine of his Brown 1 at Gela. Note that the code number is applied directly over the yellow engine cowling whereas the number on Brown 8, to the right, is on a circular, camouflaged background.

Messerschmitt Bf-109E JG27.9 (Y1+) $Erbo Graf von Kageneck W.Nr 1326 Russia Aug 1941 00

Messerschmitt Bf109E-7 flown by Oblt. Erbo Grafvon Kageneck, Staffelkapitan of 9/JG27, Russia, August 1941 This aircraft, Yellow 1, W.Nr. 1326 is believed to have been camouflaged in an 02/71/65 scheme. The wings and fuselage 10p decking would have been finished in the standard splinter pattern of 02/71, with the. Blue 65 fuselage sides darkened with mottles of 71 and occasionally 02. A predominantly Blue 65 replacement engine cowling has been fitted which has been lightly mottled with Green 71, and a total of 45 victory bars have been added, to the rudder. Note, however, that as the pilots victory tally increased, space on the rudder became a problem and some repositioning and repainting of the roundels became nececsary. Some rows were therefore completed retrospectively, the row of four bars at the top of the rudder actually representing the most recent victories.

Messerschmitt Bf-109E JG27.9 (Y1+) $Erbo Graf von Kageneck W.Nr 1326 Russia Aug 1941 01

Photo 01: Oblt. Graf von Kageneck and his Yellow 1 in August 1941 after he had completed his 300th operational mission.

Messerschmitt Bf-109E JG27.9 (Y1+) $Erbo Graf von Kageneck W.Nr 1326 Russia Aug 1941 02

Photo 02: Note the unusual spinner decoration and that the spaces remaining at the end of some rows of victory bars were completed later at this time, the rudder of von Kagenecks aircraft carried 38 victory bars, the last being a Soviet SB bomber shot down north-east of Golino on 10 August.

Messerschmitt Bf-109E JG27.9 (Y1+) $Erbo Graf von Kageneck W.Nr 1326 Russia Aug 1941 03

Photo 03: Oblt. von Kagenecks Yellow 1 following an emergency landing at Chudovo in northern Russia on 20 August 1941. Note that the rudder now carries a total of 45 Abschussbalken, the most recent being shown on the top row.

Pilots JG27.9 $Erbo Graf von Kageneck funeral 01-02

Photo 01-02: Maria Grufin von Kageneck arriving at her sons funeral and seated (right) during the service.

Pilots JG27.9 $Erbo Graf von Kageneck headstone 01

Photo 01: The original headstone marking the grave of Erbo Graf von Kageneck. After the war, headstones bearing the swastika were replaced and, in many cases, bodies were exhumed and relocated. In 197; Erbo von Kagenecks remains were finally transferred to a cemetery near Monte Cassino where he joined thousands of other Germans killed in the fighting in this area.

Erbo Graf von Kageneck

In 1918, Bonn was still a small, quiet city on the Rhine. It was here that, on 2 April, the fourth of five sons was born, to Karl Graf (Count) von Kageneck and Grafin (Countess) Maria, nee Schorlemer. At that time, a few months before the end of the First World War, Karl Grafvon Kageneck commanded a cavalry brigade on the Western Front but, at the end of June, he was captured by Canadian forces and ended the war, relatively comfortably, as a prisoner in England.

Karl Graf von Kageneck had seen his son, who had been named Erbo, only for a few hours after the birth, so when the Graf was finally freed at the end of 1919 and returned to Germany, he was pleased to be reunited with the young boy. As he grew up, Erbo von Kageneck soon revealed a very strong and dynamic personality, but at the beginning of the 20th century, life for the German nobility was difficult. The aftermath of defeat, the loss of the German colonies, a reduction in the strength of the Army, an economic crisis coupled with political upheaval and social unrest all greatly affected the nobility and its earlier way of life.

After Hitler was appointed Chancellor in January 1933, most German institutions were brought, to a greater or lesser extent, under Nazi control and considerable attention was given to the activities of the young. A network of organisations for boys and girls was established, probably the best known being the Hitler Youth, which projected an image of vitality and energy. By no means a pompous or old-fashioned boy, Erbo was attracted by the vigour and activities of the Hitler Youth and became a member. Later, at the age of 17, he began his period of compulsory service in the Arbeitsdienst and worked hard for six months on the construction of a road in the Hunsriick area, one of many being built at that time which, it was believed, would fascilitate rapid troop movements should Germany's borders be threatened. ¹

A year later, at the age of 18, von Kageneck joined the Luftwaffe. Still too inexperienced as a pilot to be sent to Spain with the Legion Condor, he ended his training as a fighter pilot in early 1939 and thus benefited enormously from three years of excellent peacetime training. In the Spring of 1939, he was posted as a Leutnant to 2./JG1. This Staffel, part of Major Bernhard Woldenga's I./JG1, was under the command of Oblt. Walter Adolph, who had gained front-line experience, and his first victory, in Spain. Later, both Adolph and von Kageneck would become 2. Staffel's most successful pilots.

The campaign in Poland, which opened on 1 September 1939, was too short to allow von Kageneck or his comrades any opportunity to claim victories. Indeed, the Gruppe had no contact at all with the Polish Air Force and, for 2./JG1, the only notable event of the campaign was that another Staffel officer, Lt. Heinrich Sanneman, was lightly wounded by ground fire. On 3 September, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany and I./JG1 was transferred to Varden, from which base it was to protect Germany's western border against any offensive. Again, however, this period was so quiet that it became known as the Sitzkrieg, or "Phoney War", and in the next eight-month period, I./JG1 claimed only three Abschusse, including one by Oblt. Walter Adolf. In March 1940, the Gruppe was moved to Gymnich, close to Erbo's home-town of Bonn, and from where the unit's operational history really began.

The Westfeldzug opened on 10 May with audacious airborne operations. Parachute troops captured intact two vital bridges between Holland and Belgium and, on the 11th, Fallschirmjiiger landed in gliders and captured the Belgian fortress of Eben-Emael before its guns could destroy the bridges at Veldwezelt and Vroenhoven. The destruction of these two bridges soon became a priority for the Allied Staff and several waves of bombers were sent to destroy them. 2 The task of protecting the Liege-Maastricht sector and the captured bridges fell to I./JG1, now under the command of Hptm. Joachim Schlichting.

The first combats took place at 06.50 hrs on 11 May against the Belgian Air Force's obsolete Fairey Battles escorted by Gladiator biplanes, and in the late afternoon, I./JG1 encountered French LeO 451 bombers escorted by MS 406s. By the end of the day, claims for 12 Abschusse had been submitted, but neither Erbo nor his Staffelkapitiin were among the successful pilots as they were based in another sector when the Allies launched their attacks.The next day, however, these two pilots became involved in combat over the Maastricht area, Oblt. Adolph claiming three Blenheims and Erbo von Kageneck opening his tally with two.To keep up with the advancing ground forces, on 16 May, I./JG1 moved to Charleville in France. Now, Hurricanes and French fighters would be the most common opponents but the newly-promoted Oblt. von Kageneck had to wait until 5 Jlme before he was able claim his third victim, a Morane near Roye for a short time, his Gruppe was then based at Tupigny and on 17 June I./JG1 claimed no fewer than 15 LeO 451s destroyed in the Roye/Beauvais/Noyon sector. Two of these were claimed by Oblt. Adolph and one by Oblt. von Kageneck. At the same time, a certain Hptm. Wilhelm Balthasar claimed three LeO 451s and a Morane to bring his total number of victories to 21.

By the time of the French armistice with Germany on 22 June, I./JG1 had claimed 81 victories in return for five pilots killed or missing in action and four wounded, plus two who had been captured but who would soon return to their Staffeln. Now credited with a total of four victories, Oblt. Erbo von Kageneck was the second most successful pilot of his Staffel after Oblt. Adolph.

On 30 June, I./JG1 moved to Plumetot, near Caen, and on 2 July to Carquebut near Ste. Mere Eglise in Normandy, from where the Gruppe would be engaged in the Battle of Britain. Three days later, I./JG1 was officially renamed III./JG27, although it is not clear if the members of the Gruppe were aware of the change since the unit itself did not adopt the new designation until mid-September. In any event, the redesignation could hardly have come as a surprise since the Gruppe had for several weeks operated under the command of StabIJG27.

On 19 July, 2./JG1 (8./JG27) had its first combat of the Battle of Britain when, between 18.25 and 18.40 hrs, it became involved in an air battle with Hurricanes over the Isle of Wight. Five of the enemy aircraft were claimed as destroyed, including one by Oblt. Adolph and two by Oblt. von Kageneck. However, the battle was extremely hard-fought and Kageneck received slight wounds when his cockpit was hit and fragments from the canopy entered his left eye. Nevertheless, he was able to bring his aircraft back but, while making an emergency landing, his head struck the Revi gunsight and he received slight concussion. As

a result of this incident, Erbo was sent back to Germany for three weeks' convalescent leave.

Von Kageneck's next victory occurred at 15.30 hrs on 18 August when he shot down a Spitfire off Bognor Regis. His wingman, Fw. Franz Blazytko, claimed a Hurricane at the same time and location. Von Kageneck's eightl1 and final victory while with 2./JG1 (8./JG27) occurred at 19.40 hrs on 9 September when he shot down a Spitfire near Rochford.

A few days earlier, on 6 September, the Kommandeur of III./JG27, Hptm. Joachim Schlichting, had been shot down and captured near Shoeburyness.As a result of this loss, Hptm. Max Dobislav, the former Staffelkapitiin of 9./J G 27 was appointed as his replacement and command of the 9. Staffel passed to Oblt. von Kageneck, this move becoming official on 18 September. The appointment of von Kageneck as Staffelkapitiin proved particularly suitable as, two days after having taken command of the unit, he claimed a Hurricane as his ninth victory. The tenth, another Hurricane, followed on 29 September and on

13, 15 and 27 October, he claimed one Hurricane and two Spitfires respectively.

In November, when there was a lull in combat over England due to the onset of poor weather, III./JG27 was recalled to Vechta, in Germany to rest. However, the rest period was cut short by Italy's catastrophic invasion of Greece which resulted in British forces being sent to the area. Wehrmacht intervention in the Balkans was now necessary in order to protect the oilfields in Rumania from possible attack by Royal Air Force units in Greece and, in January 1941, III./JG27 moved first to Bucharest and then to Belica in Bulgaria. On 6 April, a new Blitzkrieg started with the German invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece, during which the Gruppe was mainly engaged in ground support missions. That day, 9./JG27 avoided a catastrophe when Hurricanes of 33Sqn surprised the Bf109s of Erbo's former 8. Staffel, killing two of its pilots. Two other shot-down pilots were captured. At the end of the Balkan campaign, the Gruppe was based in early May at Eleusis, in Greece .Although without a victory which might have compensated for the losses of 6 April, the unit would again soon be in combat with Hurricanes.

On 2 May; III./JG27 flew to Gela, an airfield in southern Sicily, with only a handful of technicians. Its as to reinforce X Fliegerkorps, then engaged in operations against the island fortress of Malta. At that time, there was only one Jagdstaffel operating against Malta, the famous 7./JG26, or 'Red Heart' Staffel, under Oblt. Joachim Muncheberg. Although only based on Sicily for some three weeks, the Gruppe claimed five victories in return for only one pilot slightly wounded, and it was here that Oblt. von Kageneck became an outstanding personality, claiming four of the Gruppe's five victories, all Hurricanes, on 6, 13, 14 and 20 May The fifth was awarded to the Kommandeur, Hptm. Max Dobislav.

On 24 May, the Gruppe was once again withdrawn to Germany. Its next theatre of operations would be in Russia and, by 12 June, lII./JG27 was already well established at Sobo1evo from where, on the 22nd, it launched its first operation against Latvia. In a letter to his family, von Kageneck described his first mission against the Soviet Union:

"I spent the night, or rather the two hours that remained of it, in a real turmoil of emotion because we know that facing us there are 3,000 enemy aircraft. Our first take-off was at dawn, escorting Stukas. A fantastic picture! The sky in the east is blood red and below us there are the flashes and explosions of a great artillery duel. Our first attack was launched against a large airfield near Grodno where we discovered 50 aircraft and a garrison which we caught completely by surprise. They only woke up when, from a height of 20 m, we opened fire!"

Erbo von Kageneck was the first pilot in his Gruppe to claim a victory on that day, an SB-2 south of Vilna at 18.50 hrs. On the 27th he destroyed three SB-2s south of Minsk, bringing his total to 21. His 22nd followed on 8 July and by 20 July his total had risen to 30. Ten days later, with a score of 37 victories, he was awarded the Ritterkreuz. He was similarly successful during August, when he claimed no fewer than 15 victories including five on the 14th and three on the 29th, but on 20 August, he was himself hit by a J-18 and forced to make an emergency landing near Chudovo. His 'Yellow l'was 50 per cent damaged but von Kageneck himself was unhurt and the circumstances under which he was later rescued under enemy fire by an Fw58 'Weihe', is described here by Franz Fuchs, one of the crew members involved:

"I was the Wart, or chief mechanic of the Fw 58 'Weihe'. The Geschwaderstab of JG27 had moved to Soltzy on 18 August and on the 20th Ofw. Erwin Sawallisch approached me and said, "Fuchs, prepare the 'Weihe'! We are going to rescue Kageneck from Ilmensee, near Novgorod."

I started manually cranking both engines and we took off at 10.55 hrs. By 11.25 we had flown the 70 km or so to our objective where, below us, I could see someone waving his arms to attract our attention. THank God he's still there', said Sawallisch, and we landed as close to Kaganeck as we could. However, as we touched down, we could hear weapons firing. The Russians had seen us. We kept the engines running and, while our comrade sprinted towards us, we turned the machine into the wind so that we would be in the right direction to take off again without delay. As soon as Kageneck reached the aircraft, Sawallisch gave the engines full power and we took off still under fire from the Russians. Fortunately, they did not hit us and by noon we were safely back at Soltzy again."

Although the III./JG27 was still equipped with the Bf-109E-7, it claimed approximately 220 victories in Russia before, in mid-October, it began transferring back to Berlin/Doberitz, in Germany where the unit finally received the Bf109F-4. By that time, the 9./JG27's Staffelkapitiin had claimed another 14 victories, bringing his total to 65 and placing him far ahead of any other pilot in III./JG27. On 26 October, Hptm. Gordon Gollob and Oblt. Erbo Graf von Kageneck were received in Rastenburg by the Fuhrer who personally presented them with the Eichenlaub as the 38th and 39th members of the Wehrmacht to receive this award. Although the subsequent celebration at Fuhrer Hauptquartier was subdued due to Hitler's dislike of alcohol, Reichsmarschall Goring compensated for this necessarily reserved eventuality by sending a crate of Sekt, German champagne, to the von Kageneck family home.

Once again the Gruppe's rest was short, for on 6 December the Staffeln began their transfer to North Africa. This move was not without drama for, on the 9th, two Ju-52s which were transporting the Gruppe's material and personnel and where attacked in error by an Italian fighter. Six men died and a further four were severely burnt. The other Ju-52 was also hit and barely reached its intended destination at Tmimi. It was on this airfield that III./JG27 was first based and in this area that, on 12 December, Oblt. Erbo Graf von Kageneck claimed his last two victories, a P.40 and a Hurricane, as his 66th and 67th. However, this was the time of Operation Crusader, the British advance into Libya which eventually compelled the Axis forces to evacuate Cyrenaica, and on that day, III./JG27 began to transfer back to Martuba, thence to Magrum south of Benghazi, and from there to El Agheila.

Oblt. Erbo Graf von Kageneck's last aerial combat occurred on 24 December and resulted in him being severely wounded. He managed to land his Bf109F-4 Trap west of Agedabia, but as Hptm. Erhard Braune, former Staffelkapitan of the 7. Staffel and at that time Kommandeur of III./JG27, recalled:

"During the afternoon, we saw a large formation of Australian aircraft above us. We quickly reached their altitude and a dogfight followed. On my right, I saw a German pilot attacked by an Australian. I recognized Erbo's voice when he said that he had been hit. He dived away and the Australian did not follow him. I was able to locate Erbo and escorted him to our lines. I saw that he made a successful crash- landing in the desert, not too far from the front. I saw him climb out of his cockpit and lay down on the wing of his aircraft. He pointed to his lower stomach area to indicate where he was wounded. I worried about the severity of his wounds but never imagined that they would prove fatal."

Soon afterwards, three Italians drove out to the site of the crash-landing in a Fiat. They found von Kageneck still lying on the left wing of his Bf109. He had tried to bandage himself but he was bleeding profusely from terrible wounds: he had been hit in the lower abdomen and groin and had been emasculated.

The wounded Graf was carefully brought back to the nearest Axis position and underwent his first operation during the evening of 24 December. The next day, on the personal orders of Generalfeldmarschall Kesselring, he was transported to the Central Luftwaffe Hospital in Athens where doctors discovered his condition to be extremely serious; the pilot had not only been hit in his genitals but his right leg had also been seriously injured and he had lost his right kidney. Even worse, it was found that the phosphorous in the incendiary or tracer rounds which had hit him had caused the onset of blood poisoning.

With the last of his strength, and with the help of a nurse - who later explained that she never saw a man battle, as he had, against the inevitable - Erbo wrote a final letter of farewell to his family. In a faint, barely recognisable hand, he briefly explained that he had been wounded in an attack from below, hence the nature of his wounds. This letter was received by the Grafin von Kageneck during the first days of 1942. She immediately caught a train to Berlin where, as Goring personally had agreed to transfer the wounded man to the Reich's capital, her son would receive further medical care. By this time, however, von Kageneck was already in a coma and he died in Napoli in Italy on 12 January 1942 without regaining consciousness. The Grafin arrived in Napoli on the 13th and saw her son for the last time. He was buried the next day.

Years later, some sources have suggested that the Australian ace Clive Caldwell had been responsible for shooting down Erbo's aircraft. He had been flying a Curtiss Tomahawk, serial number AK498, and simply recorded in his log book, 'Bf109 damaged'.

1. Editor's Note: The military importance of the autobahns has been exaggerated; the German railway system was of far greater significance.

2 With their attention devoted to these bridges, the Allies missed the opportunity to mount an adequate aerial response against German forces which had already crossed the bridges had advanced to the Sedan area where a far more serious situation was developing.

Erbo Graf von Kageneck was born on 2 April 1918 at Bonn in Rhein. He joined the Luftwaffe in 1936. At the outbreak of World War 2, Leutnant von Kageneck was serving with 2./JG1. He flew his first missions of war during the invasion of Poland. Von Kageneck gained his first victories over Maastricht, when he shot down two RAF Blenheim twin engine bombers on 12 May 1940, during the first days of the Blitzkrieg through Holland, Belgium and France. On 5 July, 2./JG1 was redesignated 8./JG27. Von Kageneck claimed further victories during the Battle of Britain. On 18 September 1940, he was appointed Staffelkapitän of 9./JG27. Von Kageneck recorded his 10th victory when he shot down a RAF Hurricane fighter over Tunbridge Wells on 29 September. By the end of 1940, he had accumulated 13 victories. With III./JG27, von Kageneck was sent to the Mediterranean theatre and operated briefly over Malta. Here he gained four

victories against defending RAF Hurricane fighters. Included in his victories over the island were two notable RAF fighter pilots. On 13 May 1941, von Kageneck shot down Flight Lieutenant Innes Westmacott (3.75 destroyed, 1 probable and 1.333 damaged victories) of 185Sqn, RAF, who baled out wounded. He shot down Pilot Officer Claud “Hamish” Hamilton (6 victories) of 185Sqn, RAF on 14 May. Hamilton died of his wounds a short time later.

Von Kageneck participated in the invasion of Russia and claimed 16 aircraft shot down in July 1941. Oberleutnant von Kageneck was awarded the Ritterkreuz for 37 victories on 30 July. On 14 August, he claimed five Russian aircraft shot down in the Lake Ilmen area to record his 39th through 43rd victories. He recorded three victories (50-52) on 29 August and, on 4 October, a further three (58-60). On 17 October, III./JG27 were withdrawn to Germany for rest and re-equipment. Von Kageneck was awarded the Eichenlaub (Nr 39) on 26 October for 65 victories. With his score at 65, von Kageneck was transferred to the Mediterranean theatre with III./JG27 in December 1941, following a two month rest and re-equipment at Döberitz. He gained his last two victories against RAF fighters over the deserts of North Africa. On 24 December 1941, von Kageneck was critically wounded in combat with RAF fighters south of Agedabia. Although he managed to return to base, he died of his wounds in a Naples hospital on 12 January 1942. Some sources indicate that his victor was the Australian ace Clive Caldwell (28.5 confirmed, 6 probable and 15 damaged victories) of 250 Squadron RAF.

Erbo Graf von Kagenack gained a total of 67 victories. 47 of his victories were gained on the Eastern Front the remaining 20 over the Western and Mediterranean Fronts.

No Date Time A/c Type Unit Location / Comments

1. 12.5.1940 6:00 Blenheim 2./JG1 Maastricht area

2. 12.5.1940 6:02 Blenheim 2./JG1 Maastricht area

3. 5.6.1940 - Morane 406 2./JG1 Roye

4. 6.6.1940 - LeO 451 2./JG1 Noyon

5. 19.7.1940 18:35 Hurricane 2./JG1 near Isle of Wright

6. 19.7.1940 18:40 Hurricane 2./JG1 near Isle of Wright

7. 18.8.1940 15:30 Spitfire 2./JG1 Bognor Regis

8. 9.9.1940 19:40 Spitfire 2./JG1 Rochford

9. 20.9.1940 11:46 Hurricane 9./JG27 NW Dover

10. 29.9.1940 10:41 Hurricane 9./JG27 Tunbridge Wells

11. 13.10.1940 15:20 Hurricane 9./JG27 Faversham

12. 15.10.1940 11:07 Spitfire 9./JG27 S Maidstone

13. 27.10.1940 9:48 Spitfire 9./JG27 Ashford

14. 6.5.1941 12:08 Hurricane 9./JG27 near Luqua, Malta / Hurricane II (Z3057) of P/O AS Dredge, crash-landed, wounded

15. 13.5.1941 13:52 Hurricane 9./JG27 Luqua, Malta / Hurricane II (Z2837) of 185Sqn RAF flown by F/L IB Westmacott (3.75/1/1.333 victories) , baled out

16. 14.5.1941 16:36 Hurricane 9./JG27 Luqua, Malta / Hurricane II (Z2901) of 185Sqn RAF flown by P/O CE Hamilton (6/0/0 victories), killed

17. 20.5.1941 17:40 Hurricane 9./JG27 SW v Ta Venezia, Malta / Hurricane (N2673) of 261Sqn RAF flown by P/O AJ Reeves, baled out, wounded

18. 22.6.1941 18:50 SB-2 9./JG27 S Wilna

19. 27.6.1941 17:26 SB-2 9./JG27 S Minsk

20. 27.6.1941 17:28 SB-2 9./JG27 S Minsk

21. 27.6.1941 17:32 SB-2 9./JG27 S Minsk

22. 8.7.1941 6:08 SB-2 9./JG27 W Witebsk

23. 11.7.1941 13:25 U-2 9./JG27 NE Gloyniki

24. 12.7.1941 18:48 DB-3 9./JG27 W Witebsk

25. 13.7.1941 12:00 DJ-6 9./JG27 SW Smolensk

26. 14.7.1941 14:23 I-16 9./JG27 N Smolensk

27. 18.7.1941 13:29 DB-3 9./JG27 E Demidowo

28. 19.7.1941 18:20 DB-3 9./JG27 W Jarzewo

29. 20.7.1941 7:15 DB-3 9./JG27 SE Jarzewo

30. 20.7.1941 - DB-3 9./JG27 SE Jarzewo

31. 22.7.1941 19:26 DB-3 9./JG27 E Jarzewo

32. 26.7.1941 4:17 R-10 9./JG27 NE Jarzewo

33. 26.7.1941 19:23 I-16 9./JG27 E Jarzewo

34. 26.7.1941 19:25 I-16 9./JG27 E Jarzewo

35. 27.7.1941 4:05 DB-3 9./JG27 N Shiziskoje Osero

36. 27.7.1941 8:20 DB-3 9./JG27 W Demidowo

37. 27.7.1941 8:22 DB-3 9./JG27 W Demidowo

38. 10.8.1941 19:51 SB-3 9./JG27 N Golino

39. 14.8.1941 9:57 I-16 9./JG27 NNE Nowgorod

40. 14.8.1941 14:33 DB-3 9./JG27 Malyje Lutschno

41. 14.8.1941 14:35 DB-3 9./JG27 SE Malyje Lutschno

42. 14.8.1941 14:42 DB-3 9./JG27 E Winy

43. 14.8.1941 14:45 DB-3 9./JG27 ESE Winy

44. 15.8.1941 10:27 Il-2 9./JG27 ESE Proletarij

45. 16.8.1941 10:36 I-18 9./JG27 E Nowgorod

46. 19.8.1941 11:34 I-18 9./JG27 E Tschudowo

47. 19.8.1941 15:45 I-18 9./JG27 SE Kreszty

48. 21.8.1941 17:58 Il-2 9./JG27 N Staraja Rusa

49. 27.8.1941 12:10 I-18 9./JG27 E Manushkino

50. 29.8.1941 12:23 I-18 9./JG27 S Mga

51. 29.8.1941 16:12 Il-2 9./JG27 NW Schapki

52. 29.8.1941 16:26 Il-2 9./JG27 NW Tosno

53. 2.9.1941 7:53 I-16 9./JG27 E Ivanowskoye

54. 3.9.1941 5:28 I-18 9./JG27 SW Wassiklowo

55. 3.9.1941 9:57 I-16 9./JG27 SE Sluzk

56. 2.10.1941 14:06 I-18 9./JG27 Pogorjelo

57. 3.10.1941 12:08 I-18 9./JG27 N Wjasma

58. 4.10.1941 13:55 DB-3 9./JG27 Michjejewa

59. 4.10.1941 14:08 SB-2 9./JG27 Spass

60. 4.10.1941 16:52 Pe-2 9./JG27 S Cholm

61. 7.10.1941 9:10 Pe-2 9./JG27 E Cholm

62. 11.10.1941 16:14 Il-2 9./JG27 N Sytschewka

63. 11.10.1941 16:16 Il-2 9./JG27 NW Sytschewka

64. 11.10.1941 16:23 Il-2 9./JG27 NW Sytschewka

65. 12.10.1941 8:23 I-18 9./JG27 E Subzow

66. 12.12.1941 13:46 P-40 9./JG27 Tmimi area

67. 12.12.1941 - Hurricane 9./JG27 W Tmimi

Victories : 67

Awards : Ritterkreuz (30 July 1941)

Eichenlaub (26 October 1941)

Units : JG1, JG27

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