Luftwaffe fighter Aces signed

Erich "Bubi" Hartmann, 352 victories on Eastern Front (disputed)



Gerd Barkhorn, 301 victories on Eastern Front



Gunter Rall, 275 victories, 271 on Eastern Front



Wilhelm "Willi" Batz, 237 victories



Erich Rudorffer, 222 victories, 12 with ME262, 10 heavy bombers



Hermann Graf, 212 victories



Walter Schuck, 206 victories, 8 with the ME262

 

Walter Krupinski, 197 victories



Gunther Josten, 178 victories



Johannes "Mackey" Steinhoff, 176 victories with 6 in the ME262



Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert, 174 victories



Gunther Schack, 174 victories



Gerd Thyben, 157 victories

 

Peter Duettmann, 152 victories



Fritz Tegtmeier, 146 victories



Rudolf Trenkel, 138 victories



Walter Wolfrum, 137 victories



Adolf Dickfeld, 136 victories



Alfred Grislawski, 133 victories



Johannes Wiese, 133 victories with 75 more unconfirmed, 70 IL2 Sturmoviks "Cementers"

 

Franz Eisenach, 129 victories



Friedrich Oblesser, 127 victories



Dietrich Hrabak, 125 victories



Herbert Ihlefeld, 137 victories, 7 in Spain, 15 heavy bombers



Heinz Marquardt, 121 victories, 12 in one day



Franz-Josef Beerenbrock, 117 victories, shot down
and captured by Russians in 1942



Wilhelm "Willi" Crinius, 114 victories

 

super pics Lacy thanks for sharing your huge collection. interesting I have a rather large pic of A. Dickfeld but his sig looks nothing like yours in the pic, tired or bad day I suppose

 

Erich,
The signature often depends on how old they were when they signed it.
I have the envelope and a letter from him (Dickfeld) that this pic was sent with so I know it should be good. This example of Dickfeld that I posted is very recent, he is well into his 80s or 90s when he signed this photo, I will post and earlier Dickfeld I have to compare with.
There are all kinds of things to consider with autographs, for example;
With Hermann Graf, he came down with Parkinson's in 1961 and as the years progressed, until he passed, his signature got worse and shakier with the years until it was almost illegible.
I have an early Hajo Hermann signature that is nice and sharp and an older more recent one that is more angular and sketchy.
Another thing that happend as these guys got older is their family members signed the photos for them. In Europe this is considered acceptable but it is best if you know that ahead of time.
Their signatures also change with time for some of them and for some of us as well. My signature has changed about 4 times over the past 30 years and originally it was round and looped now I sign very angularly and straight up and down instead of slanted.
I have examples of Rudel's signatures from the 1960's, 70's and 80's before his stroke and they changed with each decade.
So these are some things you have to look out for if you are a collector of autographs not only from WW2 heroes but with any celebrity.

here is an earlier Dickfeld to compare.



Here are 3 samples of Hermann Graf's signatures that changed as he got older and his Parkinson's became more dibilitating





These are all Hermann Graf signatures from reliable sources and you can see the difference. If you compare a war time signed Graf it is a real nice flowing and fancy signature.

This is why I try to find the earliest "post war" signatures that I can find. A lot of people would mail these guys in the late 90's and into the 2000 decade but the signatures they got back were not real nice and flowing like the german script that they signed with 30 or more years ago.

I finally took my pics to Kinko's to scan them all and I am downloading them onto photobucket so I can do these post in a much more organized manner now that I have the posting figured out

sorry for the duplicates from earlier post and the excessive posts I did before I figured out how to post more than one picture per thread

 

yes I was looking at some od pics from the 60's and some of the guys barely hanging on and their writing skills have declined over many years, so have mine.

one of them was Hadeball's, who used to use his full name till the last months then it was his last name only

 

Many thanks for the info !

 

well after spending about 5 hours today working on photo bucket to upload my photos that I just scanned at kinkos it appears photo bucket has banned my account and I am not sure why.
does anyone know if photo bucket considers photos of german ww2 pilots to be offensive material?
any input would be appreciated
thank you
Lacy

 

Werner Schroer, 114 victories, 102 on the
Western Front, 61 in Africa and 26 bombers



Kurt "bu-mann" Buhligen, 112 victories



Franz Woidich, 110 victories



Adolf Galland, 103 victories all on Western Front, 7 in the ME262



Reinhard "Seppl "Seiler, 118 victories with 9 night time victories and 9 in Spain



Wolfgang Spate, 99 victories, Head of the Me163 Komet testing program, 5 victories in the Me262



Helmut Ruffler, 98 victories, 12 on Western front



Heinrich "Pritzel" Bar and Gustav Rodel, signed by Rodel who had 98 victories with 97 of them on the Western Front, 12 were heavy bombers, Rodel won the Spanish Cross in Bronze with Swords in the Spanish Civil War fighting with J88, Rodel fought in Poland, France, Battle of Britain, Balkans, Greece, Russia and Africa,



Hermann Schleinhege, 97 victories



Diethelm von Eichel-Schreiber, 96 victories

 

Helmut Bennemann, 93 victories



Edmund "Paule" Rossmann, 93 victories



Oskar "Ossi" Romm, 92 victories



Hans "Specker" Grunberg, 82 victories



Hugo Broch, 81 victories



Georg-Peter Eder, 78 victories, 12 in the ME262 and
36 heavy bombers, flew 150 ME262 sorties



Maximilian Mayerl, 76 victories



Johannes Pichler, 75 victories

 

Great pics! Thank you for sharing them.

Regards

Ulrich

 

Adolf "Addi" Glunz, 72 victories, 19 heavy bombers



Heinz Lange, 70 victories



Fritz Losigkeit, 68 victories



Rolf Hermichen, 64 victories, 26 Heavy Bombers



Hans-Eckehard Bob, 60 victories



Hermann Buchner, 58 victories, 12 Heavy Bombers



Hugo Dahmer, 57 victories



Hermann Wolf, 57 victories

 

Gunter Seeger, 56 victories, 8 Heavy Bombers



Fritz Karch, 47 victories, 21 Heavy Bombers



Gunther Rubell, 47 victories



Karl Rammelt, 46 victories, 11 Heavy Bombers



Ernst Borngen, 45 victories, 16 Heavy Bombers



Gerhard Schoepfel, 45 victories, All on Western Front



Robert Olejnik, 41 victories



Wolf-Dieter Huy, 40 victories

 

seems your photobucket acct is re-activated then ? could be the swastika symbol that is objectionable

 

Erich,
that is what I am thinking that they find the swastika offensive but that is just ignorance, we can watch saving private ryan, or the inglorious bastards, history channel and many other things about ww2 which show this symbol in a historical sense, not glorifying the nazi party or the belief system of former or present "nazi's"
I wrote to them and told them I was just uploading WW2 photos of pilots and aces from different countries and had no affiliation with any "nazi" organization nor was I promoting that aspect. This was just photos of the war which is something that occurred, is a historical fact and just showing pics of the war or the people who fought in it is no way a political or belief system view of things.
they are just war pics
they still will not tell me what specific term of policy that they claim I violated and I have asked them to clarify this 3 times now.

 

Seems like you got the pics back. Thanx for sharing them!

 

indeed, fantastic collection, thanks for showing

 

thanks everyone. It is nice to find people who can appreciate my collection, thanks for looking and for your comments

photobucket emailed me and appolagized saying that since they were historical military photos that they would be okay with them

Lacy

 

Stefan Litjens, 36 victories, Campaings in; Battle of Britain, Western Front, Eastern Front, Malta and Africa



Walter Loos, 38 victories, 22 Heavy Bombers



Hans Weik, 36 victories, 22 Heavy Bombers



Bruno Stolle, 35 victories



Karl Kennel, 34 victories, ground attack pilot



Willi Reschke, 26 victories, 20 Heavy Bombers



Willi Unger, 24 victories in 59 sorties, all Heavy Bombers



Leo Schumacher, 23 victories, Bf110 Ace


Johannes Schalk, 21 victories, Bf110 Ace



Georg Christl, 19 victories, Bf110 Ace