Showing posts with label Luftwaffe Day Aces. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Luftwaffe Day Aces. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Hauptmann Kurt Ebersberger

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Kurt Ebersberger, Luftwaffe ace with 30 known victories

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Hauptmann Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert

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Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert wearing life-vest


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Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert after receiving Eichenlaub

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Oberst Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke

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Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke as Major

Oberst Johannes Steinhoff

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Johannes Steinhoff wearing Luftwaffe tropical uniform


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Johannes Steinhoff as Hauptmann

Oberst Alfred Druschel

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Alfred Druschel as Hauptmann


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Alfred Druschel as Major. Colorized image by Alex K.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Oberst Herbert Ihlefeld

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Herbert Ihlefeld as Major wearing Schwerter

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Oberleutnant Karl-Heinz Plücker

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This informal shot were taken when JG 52 was operating on the Eastern Front in 1943. Gerhard Barkhorn (left), Gruppenkommandeur II./JG 52 chats with Leutnant Karl-Heinz Plücker at Charkow-Rogan in Russia. Although Barkhorn had won the Eichenlaub for 120 victories by this time, he wears no decorations!

Major Gerhard Barkhorn

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This informal shot were taken when JG 52 was operating on the Eastern Front in 1943. Gerhard Barkhorn (left), Gruppenkommandeur II./JG 52 chats with Leutnant Karl-Heinz Plücker at Charkow-Rogan in Russia. Although Barkhorn had won the Eichenlaub for 120 victories by this time, he wears no decorations!

Hauptmann Walter Horten

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Walter Horten of III./JG 26 in the cockpit of his Messerschmitt Bf 109 E "White 7". Note the faded condition of the temporary yellow paint on the forward part of the cowling


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Walter Horten of III./JG 26 in the cockpit of his Messerschmitt Bf 109 E "White 7"


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Seen here is Walter Horten, Gruppenkommandeur of III./JG 26, in front of his Messerschmitt Bf 109 E. The aircraft has a camouflage scheme consisting of 71/02/65 with some lower areas repainted. Note the auxiliary fuel tank

Hauptmann Hermann Segatz


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An interesting shot of Oberleutnant Hermann Segatz (Staffelkapitän of 8./JG 52). His aircraft displays the Tyrolean eagle emblem

Major Johannes Wiese

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Johannes Wiese (right) with comrades in front of a Messerschmitt Bf 109 E of E/JG 52 at Eibling

Monday, December 26, 2011

Major Joachim Müncheberg

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Colorized image of Luftwaffe ace Joachim Müncheberg


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Joachim Müncheberg wearing schwimmweste (life-vest)


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Joachim Müncheberg as a Hauptmann

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Oberfeldwebel Walter Grünlinger

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Oberingenieur Rudolf Blaser on the wing of a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-2 bearing the tactical marking < + I. This aircraft, Wernummer 20206, was flown by Oberfeldwebel Walter Grünlinger, wingman of the Gruppenkommandeur Hauptmann Josef Priller. Grünlinger had apparently just returned from a combat mission when this photograph was taken, and Blaser is seen explaining some technical aspects of the aircraft

Friday, November 4, 2011

Oberst Walter Oesau

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Oberstleutnant Walter Oesau


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Major Walter Oesau with his Me 109

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Oberstleutnant Hans Philipp

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Hans Philipp at Coquelles, France, August 1940


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Major Hans Philipp


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Hauptmann Hans Philipp holding baby wolf

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Hauptmann Hans-Joachim Marseille

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Hans-Joachim Marseille with Hawker Hurricane MkIIB of 274. Squadron RAF, North Afrika - 30 March 1942 (coloured)


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Colorizing photo of Hans-Joachim Marseille


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Hans-Joachim Marseille with his crews


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Hans-Joachim Marseille (as Oberleutnant) & his Bf 109f


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Hans-Joachim Marseille in the African desert


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Hans-Joachim Marseille


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Hans-Joachim Marseille


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Hans-Joachim Marseille

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Major Walter Nowotny

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Walter Nowotny as a Hauptmann


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Walter "Nowi" Nowotny