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!
It was originally posted on Axis History Forum by AHF member "ttvon". The Luftwaffe Oberleutnant to Dietl's left is Konrad Knabe (a future RKT on 16.04.1943 as a Kettenführer with the Aufklärungsstaffel 1.(F)/124 (Kette Lappland), this according to AHF member "joerg". The Heer Officer is unidentified but Dietl's Signals Officer Oberleutnant Fürst Windisch-Grätz has been suggested by AHF member "Juha Hujanen".