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German Staffelabzeichen Aufklärer 1000 Feindflug 4./FNAGr14

German JG77

American J R Paget usaaf 8th air force flack helmet pierced Berlin raid March 1944

Shot down by flak and crashed at Lautenbach on 7/20/44 in B-17 ' The Liberty Run ' # 42-102509, Prisoner of War (POW). 20-07-1944 Thursday
Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Boeing B-17G-50-BO 42-102509 The Liberty Run.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/3/44; Gr Island 29/3/44; Dow Fd 6/4/44; Assigned 401BS 91BG [LL-A] Bassingbourn 22/4/44; Missing in Action Leipzig 20/7/44 with Art Hultin, Co-pilot: Capt Bill Martin, Navigator: Bob Hart, Bombardier: Maurice Bonomo, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Woodrow Roberts, Radio Operator: Homer Dumont, Ball turret gunner: Bob Meyers, obs-Capt Art Koscinsli, Waist gunner: Frank Franklin, Tail gunner: John Paget (10 Prisoner of War); flak set ship ablaze, crashed Laudenbach, S of Aschaffenberg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 7274. THE LIBERTY RUN.





This is the last crew of the Liberty Run. In the front row center (light overalls and cap) is my father, Robert Meyers, ball turret gunner. To the left of him is Homer Dumont, radio operator. Please let me know if any one can identify the others. Several were captured and taken to Stalag Luft IV near Stargard. All survived and returned to the United States.

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2. 42-102509 | American Air Museum
3. original ww2 usaaf 8th air force flack helmet photograph | eBay
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German Erich Steigleder 13-07-1941 Sunday Langenau near Breslau

German Fritz Leitl + 20-01-1945 Saturday

German Ju88 Emblem KG51 crew Flugplatz Paris PKW celebration

German Griechenland Athen 1944 Kalamaki Alimos Quartier portrait JG77 Greece

German + 08-08-1943 Sunday

Do 217 K-1 (W.Nr. 4530) of II./KG 2 flown by Feldewebel Detleff Krüger (F), Gefreiter Heinrich Salecker (B), Unteroffizier Fritz Bellmann (Bf) and Unteroffizier Max Speck (Bs), all killed, crashed at Soesterberg airfield, 90%
Bs Uffz. Max Speck killed on return flight from attack on Hull while aircraft crashed on landing approach for Soesterberg 14-7-1943. Do217K-1 U5+FM 4/KG2 4350. Also killed Ff Fw Detlev Kruger, B Gef Heinrich Salecker, Bf Uffz. Fritz Bellmann.
See Ulk Balkes KG2 history and Luft Qm's returns.
There is another Sterbebild of Max Speck with photo without hat and captioned ''an meinen lieben Mann und guten Vater'' which I believe translates as my dear husband and a good father.

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2. altes Sterbebild - LW Uffz. Bordschütze Kampfgeschwader 1943 Feindflug Amsterdam | eBay

German Josef Schwargler + 16-08-1940 Friday 4./KG

German Hauptmann Müncheberg mit Jagdgewehr

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German Josef Schwargler + 16-08-1940 Friday 4./KG

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4./KG77 Junkers Ju88A-1, W. Nr. 4105. Crashed in the Starnberger See 200 m north-west of Gut Hübschenried, near Niederau, during routine domestic flight, cause unknown. FF Fw Josef Schwärzler, BO Fw Sebastian Stangl, and BS Uffz Heinz Reiser all missing.

American John Aitken Jr
Highest Rank: Major
Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
Awards: European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal

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2. Original WW2 USAAF Lieut John Aitken Press Photo Spitfire | eBay

German Werner Molders

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American 24th Persuit Group Air Force group Photograph P-40

American Jack R Warren 1944
North American P-51B-1-NA 43-12124 to RAF as Mustang III FX850. Returned to USAAF Dec 30, 1943, no RAF service. To 364th FS, 357th FG and crashed due to bad weather near Ostend, Belgium Mar 18, 1944. MACR 3400. Pilot killed.

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American Lt. Jack Terzian 353rd F.G. 351st F.S with Republic P-47D-2-RA Thunderbolt 42-22469 YJ-Z Marty (356th FG, 360th FS, 8th AF) shot down by Fw 190A-8 flown by Uffz Gartz of JG2/2 at Langgons, NE of Butzbach, W of Wetzler, Germany Sep 9, 1944. MACR 8656. Pilot killed.

Lt. Jack Terzian became Prisoner of War (POW) crashed at Letterhouten on 22 May 44 in P-47 42-25730 Evaded capture through the Belgium Underground until 12 July 1944 when he was captured by the Gestapo and imprisoned in St. Gilles prison in Brussels. . He escaped when the train carrying them out of the city derailed on 12 Sept 44 Evaded (EVD)

Republic P-47D-22-RE 42-25730 (353rd FG, 351st FS, 8th AF) hit by 20-mm AAA on outskirts of Liege, Belgium but flew until prop came off and engine quit and crash landed 10 mi NE of Brussels near Burst, Belgium May 22, 1944. MACR 5101.

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3. *PHOTO* P-47 Thunderbolt "Marty" ~ Lt. Jack Terzian 353rd F.G. 351st F.S. ~ ETO | eBay

American "Dottie Anne B-24J-95-CO Liberator 42-100376 38th Bomb Squadron, 30th Bomb Group, 7th Air Force Lost on the September 3,1944 mission to Iwo Jima. 10 rescued, 1 KIA MACR 8522
2nd Lt. Frederick C. Dodd - pilot
2nd Lt. Howard G. Miller - copilot
2nd Lt. Iver R. Swenson - navigator
2nd Lt. Richard E. McBride - bombardier
2nd Lt. Benjamin R. Cook,Jr. - observer
T/Sgt. Richard L. Williams - engineer/top turret gunner (KIA)
T/Sgt. Julio Depuma - radio operator
S/Sgt. Donald E. Hunnicutt - gunner
S/Sgt. William L. Kopp - gunner
S/Sgt. John J. Mullen - gunner
S/Sgt. John W. Kinnaman - gunner
The aircraft was lost due to the No. 1 engine failing, causing excessive fuel usesage. The entire crew bailed out safely but T/Sgt. Williams had trouble with his life-jacket and his chute dragged him down before the other crew members could reach him.

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German

Career Summaries - Luftwaffe Officers 1935 - 1945
Section L - R
RUDEL, Hans-Ulrich. (DOB: 02.07.16 in Konradswaldau/Silesia). (RESBgEHB, DKG). 1936 served
two months in the RAD. 04.12.36 entered the Luftwaffe. – basic training at Wildpark-Werder. 06.37
with LKS Wildpark-Werder, started flight training. 06.38 assigned to I./St.G. 168 at Graz-Thalerhof
on completion of Luftkriegsschule. 01.12.38 trf to Aufklärerschule Hildesheim for Beobachter
(observer/navigator) training. 01.01.39 promo to Lt. 01.06.39 trf to 2.(F)/Aufkl.Gr. 121 at Prenzlau.
09.39 Lt., Beobachter in 2.(F)/Aufkl.Gr. 121. 02.03.40 trf to Flieger-Ausb.Rgt. 43 Wien-
Stammersdorf (later Crailsheim) and appt Adjutant. c.07.40 trf to St.G. 2 in France. 11.09.40 promo
to Oblt. 04.41 Lt., temporary duty with St.G. 3 (to 04.41). c.30.04.41 trf from Erg.St./St.G. 2 to
I./St.G. 2 at Maloi/S Greece. 23.06.41 flew his first Stuka combat mission, hitting targets in the
Grodno area of NE Poland as a pilot in 1./St.G. 2. c.01.08.41 trf to III./St.G. 2 and appt Techn.Offz.
23.09.41 sunk the Russian battleship Marat with a 1000 kg bomb. 09.41 sunk a cruiser (needs
confirmation). 20.10.41 Oblt., awarded Ehrenpokal. 02.12.41 Oblt., III./St.G. 2, awarded DKG as
the first Stuka pilot to complete 500 combat missions. 06.01.42 Oblt., awarded Ritterkreuz, Staka
9./St.G .2. 03.42 Oblt., appt Staka Erg.St./St.G. 2 (to 10.42). 11.42 in hospital. 22.11.42 Oblt., appt
Staka 1./St.G. 2. 25.11.42 flew an astounding 17 combat missions in the Stalingrad area in a few
hours of daylight in a single day. 14.04.43 Oblt., awarded Eichenlaub, Staka 1./St.G. 2. 01.06.43
Hptm., Erg.St./St.G. 2. 01.07.43 promo to Hptm. (RDA 01.04.43). 18.07.43 Hptm., appt Kdr.
III./St.G. 2 (to 18.10.43). 09.10.43 reached his 1,500th combat sortie. 18.10.43 Maj., appt Kdr.
18.10.43 Maj., appt Kdr.III./SG 2 (to 31.07.44). 28.10.43 destroyed his 100th tank. 25.11.43 Hptm.,
awarded Schwerter. 01.03.44 promo to Maj. 20.03.44 Maj., Stab III./SG 2 WIA/POW - captured by
Soviets vic Wolfaniwka but escaped - Ju 87 D-5 (T6+BD). 27,28.03.44 mentioned twice in
despatches. 29.03.44 Maj., awarded Brillianten, Kdr. III./SG 2. 16.05.44 Maj., Kdr. Stab III./SG 2
MIA/Returned - Ju 87 G force-landed by fighter damage, 5 km NNE of Kishinev/Moldavia , but
rescued by Ju 87 (T6+FT) of Uffz. Oechsler. 01.06.44 reached 2,000 combat sorties and 301 tanks
destroyed. 03.06.44 Again mentioned in despatches. 01.08.44 Maj., appt Kommodore SG 2 (to
08.02.45 WIA). 06.08.44 destroyed his 329th tank and mentioned in despatches a fourth time.
19.08.44 Maj., Stab/SG 2 WIA - Ju 87 G-2 shot down by AA NE of Ergli/Latvia (Lithuania?) during a
low level attack on tanks, force-landed. 01.09.44 promo to Obstlt. 23.09.44 Obstlt., Stab/SG 2.
16.11.44 Obstlt., Stab/SG 2. 17.11.44 Obstlt., Stab/SG 2 WIA - Ju 87 G-2 (SO+FW) (WNr. 494 193)
force-landed vic Budaörs, SE of Gyngyos in the area of Budapest after damage from ground fire from
tanks. 23.12.44 reached 2,400 combat sorties. 29.12.44 Obstlt., awarded goldenes Eichenlaub to the
RK. 01.01.45 promo to Oberst. 16.01.45 awarded Hungarian Golden Bravery Medallion. 08.02.45
Oberst, Stab/SG 2 WIA - Ju 87 G-2 (<-+) shot down by ground fire S of Carzig, 5 km NW of Lebus,
10 km N of Frankfurt/Oder (20 km W of Kustrin), resulting in partial amputation of right leg and at
approximately same time credited with 516 tanks destroyed. 25.03.45 returned to unit. 21.04.45
Oberst, re-appt Kommodore SG 2 (to 08.05.45). 08.05.45 Oberst Kommodore /SG 2 POW - Ju 87 G-
2 (<+-) (WNr. 494110) surrendered to U.S. forces at Kitzingen airfield, unhurt - deliberately damaged
upon landing. 04.46 released. Credited with 2,530 combat missions over the course of the war and
the destruction of 519 tanks, a battleship, cruiser and destroyer, 70 landing craft, 800 vehicles, 150
artillery and AA positions, 4 armored trains, etc. Shot down 30 times, wounded 5 times. †18.12.82
in Rosenheim, Krs. Rosenheim/Bayern. Buried in Dornhausen, Krs. Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen.
For further reading see: Just, Günther. Stuka-Oberst Hans Ulrich Rudel (Stuttgart: Motorbuch Verlag,
1977). ISBN: 3-87943-390-9.

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