Luftwaffe, Stuka pilots, Knights Cross, signed photos

Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Stuka pilot with 2530 sorties, claimed 519 tanks destroyed (disputed) and 9 aircraft, Most highly decorated soldier in the entire wehrmacht having recieved the Knights Cross with Oakleaves, Swords and Diamonds in Gold, the only soldier to recieve this award. photo with clipped signature from the 70's



Franz Kieslich, Stuka pilot, 1078 sorties, GruppenCommander of III Gruppe, Sturzkampfgeschwader77, 1943



Paul-Werner Hozzel, First Stuka pilot to win the Knights Cross, Gruppe commander of Schlachtgeschwader 1 & 2 "Immelmann" , 1939-1941



Willi Noller, Stuka pilot, 1058 sorties, claimed 86 tanks destroyed and 2 aircraft, St.G. 2, Immelmann



Friedrich Lang, Stuka pilot, 1008 sorties, flew entire war without ever being shot down, crash landing or bailing out. Won Knights Cross with Oakleaves and Swords, Staffel Captain of 1/St.G. 2 'Immelmann'



Gerhard Studemann, Stuka pilot, 996 sorties, claimed 117 tanks destroyed, Hauptmann · Gruppenkommandeur of the III./Schlachtgeschwader 77



Jakob Jenster, Stuka Pilot, 960 sorties, claimed over 100 tanks destroyed, St.G.1 & 2 "Immelmann"




Erwin-Peter Diekwisch, Stuka pilot, 934 sorties, claimed 64 tanks and 12 aircraft victories, St.G.1, SG.5, KG200



Kurt Kuhlmey, Stuka pilot, campaigns in Poland, Norway, France, Great Britain, Malta where he participated in the attack on the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious, Commander of Detachment Kuhlmey built around Schlachtgeschwader 3 which fought in Finland and was incremental in stalling the Soviet offensive in the summer of 1944



Willi Noller and Heinrich Meyering, Stuka pilots, Meyering flew 972 sorties



Elmar Schaefer, Stuka pilot, Sturzkampfgeschwader 1, early war stuka pilot, Norway, France, Balkans, Africa, recieved the Knights Cross on 5/8/40



Erhard Jahnert, Stuka pilot, claimed 25+ tanks destroyed, St.G.2 & 3



Helmut Bode, Stuka Pilot, Commander III/St.G.77



Kurt Kuhlmey, Stuka pilot, Commander SG3

 

interesting Studemann signed on a pic of StG 2's Ju 87D's

Rudels claims of 519 Soviet tank kills is totally bogus. more like 200 in my estimation

Oswald did not fly Stuka's Lacy he is noted as one of the premier Hs 129 ground attack aces of that famous unit, primarily StG 9. neat guy by the way ..........

 

thanks for the info on Oswald, I had that somewhere but could not find it. I also had Karl Kennel in the post but removed him as he did zerstorer missions, I had originally titled the post "ground attack pilots" but after I had loaded so many Stuka pilots I changed it to Stuka pilots only, So I will take out Oswald as I will by doing more posts on ground attack "schlachter" aces and also another on bomber aces signed photos that I have.
I was also going to add a note on Rudel's tank claims about them being disputed so I will do that too.
thanks
hey I just read Willi Reschke's book on JG301/302 and although it was mostly statistics from records it was very interesting to learn about those units and the FW190 high altitude fighter by Tank. The amount of losses those units suffered is unreal! He also mentions Walter Loos in the last chapter and talks about him being Dahl's wingman and about a couple of russian planes he and Reschke got at the end of the war.

 

it's looking more ane more like Loos did not bring down any Soviet craft with the Ta 152H. Reschke's book needs a re-do which I am working on at the moment. There are dates listed in 1944 and 45 that no missions flown but are listed via Willi ..............sorry Willi. He is honest enough to give him credit stating that much of the JG 301 history is lost to time and space, most likely burned up in the last days like Kommando Welter and their Me 262 night missions in 45.

 

On a sad note just before his death a so called colletor conned his way into the home of Heinrich Meyering and stole all his awards !!

 

Stealing the awards of a dying man, what the heck is the matter with people? how can you show so little respect for someone that had to fight and suffer through that war?
that is the lowest form of life that there is!