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GERMANY - JANUARY 22: The German airships 'Zeppelin' and 'Parseval', Liebig trade card, c.1910. 'La Navigazione Aerea' (Aerial Navigation). One of a set of Italian Liebig trade cards showing the airships adopted by the German military and used by both sides in World War I. After the war, the Germans abandoned the use of Zeppelins because of their failure in air raids against Britain and their natural vulnerability to anti-aircraft fire. The Liebig company produced sets of trade cards to promote their meat extract, a cheap and nutritious product invented in 1847 by chemist, Justus von Liebig. The meat extract was produced from 1865 at the Fray Bentos - Liebig processing plant set up in Uruguay. 1,863 sets of cards were produced continuously from 1872 until 1975 by which time the company had joined with Brooke Bond to become Brooke-Bond Oxo and was owned by Unilever. (Photo by Science & Society Picture Library
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not new but it has good info.
Luftwaffe aces meet Hitler after an awards ceremony at the Berghof, 1944
rom left to right:
1) Oberst Werner Streib – Luftwaffe night fighter. He was officially credited with shooting down 66 enemy aircraft, with 65 claimed at night. He was the first night fighter pilot to be honored with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords.
2) Major Gerhard "Gerd" Barkhorn – Luftwaffe day fighter. He scored 301 victories, achieved in 1,104 missions; all his victories were won on the Russian Front. Despite being the second highest scoring pilot in aviation history, Barkhorn was not awarded the Diamonds to his Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords after achieving his 300th victory on 5 January 1945.
3) Generalmajor Erich Walther – Commander of a Fallschirmjäger regiment (paratroopers). He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. Promoted to Generalmajor on 30 January 1945 he was taken prisoner of war by the Red Army on 8 May 1945. Erich Walther died at Soviet Special Camp 2 on 26 December 1947.
4) Oberstleutnant Kurt Bühligen – Luftwaffe day fighter. By 1944 he had shot down his 100th victim. While flying over Soviet held territory his engine malfunctioned and he was forced to land. He was captured by the Russians and held as a POW until 1950. He had scored a total of 112 victories.
5) Oberstleutnant Hans-Joachim Jabs – Luftwaffe day and night fighter. 50 victories. Jabs flew variants of the Messerschmitt Bf 110 Zerstörer heavy day fighter and night fighter.
6) Oberstleutnant Bernhard Jope : Luftwaffe bomber pilot. Recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Jope flew the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 "Condor" on missions across the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean in support of the Kriegsmarine.
7) Major Reinhard Seiler – Luftwaffe day fighte. He was credited with exactly 100 victories during World War II, over the course of about 500 combat missions. He recorded an additional 9 victories during the Spanish Civil War. In total 109 victories.
8) Major Erich Hartmann ( hidden by Hitler) – Luftwaffe day fighter. Nicknamed "Bubi" by his comrades and "The Black Devil" by his Soviet adversaries, Erich Hartmann is the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. "The Blonde Knight of Germany" flew 1,404 combat missions and participated in aerial combat on 825 separate occasions. He claimed, and was credited with, shooting down 352 Allied aircraft—345 Soviet and 7 American. During the course of his career, Hartmann was forced to crash-land his damaged fighter 14 times due to damage received from parts of enemy aircraft he had just shot down or mechanical failure. Hartmann was never shot down or forced to land due to enemy fire. Hartmann claimed, that of all his accomplishments, he was proudest of the fact that he never lost a wingman (Gunther Capito was shot down but survived). He received Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds on 25 August 1944 for claiming 301 aerial victories. At the time of its presentation to Hartmann, this was Germany's highest military decoration.
9) Major Horst Ademeit – Luftwaffe day fighter. He was credited with 166 victories in over 600 missions and recorded 164 of his victories over the Eastern Front. He was posthumously promoted to Major.
10) Major Johannes Wiese – Luftwaffe day fighter. was officially credited with 133 victories claimed in 480 combat missions. Additionally he had 75 more unconfirmed claims. Among his claims are 70 Il-2 Stormoviks. Soviet fighter pilots therefore greatly respected Wiese, and referred to him as the "Lion of Kuban".

11) Wachtmeister Fritz Petersen – Flak commander. He receiver Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves for extreme battlefield bravery.
12) Major Dr. Maximilian Otte – Luftwaffe Stuka pilot. He was killed on 20 May 1944 by Soviet flak during the First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive. During his career he flew 1179 missions.
13) Hauptmann Walter "Graf Punski" Krupinski – Luftwaffe day fighter. He was credited with 197 victories in 1,100 sorties. He was called by his fellow pilots Graf Punski (Count Punski) due to his Prussian origins. Krupinski was one of the first to fly the Me 262 jet fighter in combat as a member of the famous aces squadron JV 44 led by Adolf Galland.
(Photo credit: Walter Frentz).
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1. Awards
Murphy received a vast amount of awards and decorations both from his own country and from France and Belgium.
These include the American Campaign Medal, the French Croix de Guerre with Silver Star, Campaign Medals for the Middle East, Africa and Europe, the French Legion of Honor, French Croix de Guerre with Palm, the World War II Victory Medal, the Army of Occupation Medal, the French Liberation Medal, the Belgian Croix de Guerre and the American Medal of Honor and Legion of Merit.

In total, Murphy received 33 awards and medals. Amongst these was the prestigious Medal of Honor.
2. Held Off A Company Of Germans
The Medal of Honor was awarded to Murphy after he single-handedly held off a company of German soldiers at the Colmar Pocket and then, incredibly, even after being wounded, led a counterattack.
he Germans scored a direct hit on an M10 tank destroyer, setting it alight, forcing the crew to abandon it. Murphy ordered his men to retreat to positions in the woods, remaining alone at his post, shooting his M1 carbine and directing artillery fire via his field telephone while the Germans aimed fire directly at his position.
Murphy mounted the abandoned, burning tank destroyer and began firing its .50 caliber machine gun at the advancing Germans, killing a squad crawling through a ditch towards him. For an hour, Murphy stood on the tank destroyer returning German fire from footsoldiers and advancing tanks, killing or wounding 50 Germans.
He sustained a leg wound during this stand and stopped only after he ran out of ammunition. Murphy then rejoined his men, disregarding his own wound, and led them back to repel the Germans. He insisted on remaining with his men while his wounds were treated. For his actions that day, he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
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Shinpachi said:
I wished more PTO pics but this did not mean no ETO pics.
Frankly, I am glad to see more posts in this thread recently.
Thanks Snautzer and johnbr above all :)
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I do like most of the posts, but i do think shinpachi called for a dedicated pto thread. Seems logicical and sensible. 2 threads .... eto and pto. What is the use in two threads doing the same? For me i will post eto in eto and pto here. Hope i get a following in that. 😊
 
Please let me pay respects to your wise and logical understanding and decision, Snautzer.
One more difference between the two threads is that this thread does not limit the number of pics for a post within the forum rule - probably 10 at the moment because this was necessary for me to tell a story with multiple pics.
 
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