Hptm Walter Adolph, 3.10.40 - 18.9.41. Moorseele Belgium
Career Summaries - Luftwaffe Officers 1935 - 1945
Section A - F
ADOLPH, Walter. (DOB: 11.06.13 in Fontanelle/Romania). (R). 05.09.37 (?) Lt., 2./J88 unhurt - Bf 109 B
crash-landed vic Llanes a/f /Spain. 10.37, in 1. J/88 (Legion Condor) in Spain (to c.04.38). 30.12.37 Lt.,
with 1. J/88. 01.01.39 appt Staka 2./JG 130. 01.05.39 appt Staka 2./JG 1 (to 05.07.40). 06.06.39 Lt., 1. J/88
awarded the Spanienkreuzes in Gold mit Brillanten. 01.10.39 Oblt., 2./JG 1. 12.05.40 Oblt., 2./JG 1.
06.06.40 Oblt., 2./JG 1. 05.07.40 Oblt., appt Staka 8./JG 27 (to 30.09.40). 03.10.40 Hptm., appt Kdr. II./JG
26 (to 18.09.41). 17.06.41 Hptm., Stab II./JG 26. 22.06.41 Hptm., Stab II./JG 26. 23.07.41 Hptm., Stab
II./JG 26. 16.08.41 Hptm., Stab II./JG 26. 18.09.41 Hptm., Stab II./JG 26 KIA – Fw 190 A-1 (<<+) failed to
return from combat over the English Channel off Ostende (shot down by a 41? Sqdn. Spitfire and crashed 30
km NW of Ostende); his remains washed up on the Belgian coast 4 weeks later. 18.09.41 Hptm.,
posthumously awarded Ritterkreuz (other sources give 13.11.40 as the date of the award), Kdr. II./JG 26.
Buried at Lommel. Credited with 79 combat missions and 25 air victories (including one in Spain).
- Jagdgeschwader 26
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