Re: Can we identify whose Stuka this is?
 

Ah sorry thought you were referring to the photo of the 3 NCO's...

Re: Can we identify whose Stuka this is?
 

Actually I think the centre Fw. and Fw. on left of the last photo is actually Heinz Bevernis. I have another photo and he is nearly bald on top as this person.......unfortunately the photos are all over the place in this album.

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Responsible Uffz!!!

Obfwn. Willi Lämmle DKiG, Heinz Bevernis RKT and the "Staffel Spieß" try and butcher Obfw. Siegfried Plappert DKiG!!!

/Ian

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KKKK....nice one!

I do not blame them for trying to keep the morale high....in Russia! Winter time (minus 20 or minus 30 degrees or even plus)...lot of missions, not a great perspective of finishing the war very soon...very poor living conditions and food...one had to have at least a great sense of humour and courage to keep going...day after day....very very far away from home.

By the way, maybe someone enlight us...do we have something written about St.G 1 during the war? Like a War Diary or a Squadron Diary (in English, German or other language)?

I am aware of a book of memories from a St.G 3 airman (in German), something about Rudel and the St.G 2 (with some 400 pictures, written by a former SG 4 airman), but not too much more, isn't it?

IF someone do have more information about biographies on this topic, please do inform here...so we can acquire more knowledge.

Yours
Baumgartner

Re: Can we identify whose Stuka this is?
 

There is this:
Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot Hardcover – by Helmut Mahlke (Author)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Memoirs-Stuk.../dp/1848326645

Which is the English reprint of "Stuka: Angriff--Sturzflug".

It covers Mahlke's time with the unit until around August 1941. However it does have a loss list for I/186 and III/1 from the start until the end of the war.

I have a copy in German and also a copy of his original manuscript.

/Ian

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IAN, I did not know his memories were translated to the English idiom...

So, we do have now only those memories/books specially dedicated to the Stuka units or memories from Stuka airmen (at least of my humble knowledge):
1-Weal, John. Junkers Ju 87 Stukageschwader 1937-1941; London: Osprey, 1997 96 p. ISBN 1-85532-636-1 Osprey Combat Aircraft 1.
2-Nauroth, Holger. Stukageschwader 2 Immelmann: eine Dokumentation über das erfolgreichste deutsche Stukageschwader; Preussich Oldendorf: K. W. Schütz, 1988 366 p. ISBN 3-87725-123-4
3-Smith, Peter C. Stuka Squadron: Stuka Gruppen 77: The Luftwaffe's Fire Brigade; Wellingtonborough, Northants: Patrick Stephens, 1990 192 p. ISBN 1-85260-286-4
4- Weal, John. Junkers Ju 87 Stukageschwader in the Mediterranean and North Africa; London: Osprey, 1998 96 p. ISBN 1-85532-722-8 Osprey Combat Aircraft 6.
5- Conversations With A Stuka Pilot [Illustrated Edition] by Brigadier-General Paul-Werner Hozzell (new one for me, I only discovered today!)
6- Smith, Peter C. STUKA AT WAR.

IAN, perhaps from the material you bought/gathered (gathered does not seems a correct word, I am not sure) about those St.G 1 airmen...a new book may arise. We would be delighted...believe me. Again congratulations and thank you for sharing with us...I had never seen before a Ju 87 rudder with art and RK painted...a not too common procedure amongst Stuka fliegers, it seems....

From the list above, I do have only 2 books, that one from Peter C. Smith (Stuka at War) and the magnific work of Holger Nauroth...the tribute to Rudel, which I fully recommend for those who not have them yet.

Adriano S. Baumgartner