Re: Werner Baumbach ship destroyer
 

Circling back to this, I just located this photo. That's not Werner Baumbach is it. (Not at all.) Can anyone ID this man, and does it help or add to the mystery?

Bronc

Re: Werner Baumbach ship destroyer
 

Lt. Johannes Geismann (A-4 / 141016 3Z+DH 1./KG 77)

https://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Ju-88/KG...y-1942-01.html

Re: Werner Baumbach ship destroyer
 

Good morning Gentlemen,

has there ever been made a ranking of ship destroyer pilots by tonnage sunk ?
(Like that of the submarine commanders.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...oat_commanders

Michael

Re: Werner Baumbach ship destroyer
 

It is known much tonnage was sunk by Fw 200 Condors.
Has it ever been tried to create a breakdown of the victorious pilots ?

Re: Werner Baumbach ship destroyer
 

I have seen a number of photos of silhouettes of destroyed ships painted on the tails of large aircraft and on one fighter aircraft.

The latter was unusual in that some ships were half silhouette and half outline. The BRT sunk was painted on.

Re: Werner Baumbach ship destroyer
 

You could probably work it out from my list of ships sunk by KG 40 in my book on the Condor

Re: Werner Baumbach ship destroyer
 

Good morning Chris,

found it at the German Amazon, very appealing but currently unavailable:
https://www.amazon.de/Focke-Wulf-Fw2...s%2C507&sr=8-1
I'll keep my eyes open for it !

Have a good weekend, sincerely,

Michael

Re: Werner Baumbach ship destroyer
 

If there was a list with his missions (Feindflüge), that could also help.
Peter

Re: Werner Baumbach ship destroyer
 

Was it straightforward to discern if you had sunk a ship by your bombs ?
I mean the sinking of a ship takes longer than the fall of a shot-down aircraft, presumably longer than you circle with your bomber above it before disengaging...

Re: Werner Baumbach ship destroyer
 

Hello there Gentlemen,

how do you like this one?: Bomber Aces by tonnage sunk

1. Werner Baumbach – 300,000+ tons sunk
2. Joachim Helbig – 182,000+ tons sunk
3. Martin Harlinghausen – 127,000+ tons sunk (as an observer)
4. (Matthias Schwegler – 116,000 tons sunk or damaged)
5. Jurgen Steputat – 100,000+ tons sunk
6. (Heinz Jente - ~100,000 tons sunk or damaged)
7. (Johannes Geismann - ~98,000 tons sunk or damaged)
8. Robert Kowalewski – 95,528 tons sunk
9. (Lambert Konschegg von Pramburg - ~70,000 tons sunk or damaged)
10. Karl-Heinz Greve – 69,000 tons sunk
11. Edmund Daser – 68,000 tons sunk (Fw 200 Condor)
12. Hajo Herrmann – 65,000+ tons sunk
13. Rudolf Mayr – 65,000 tons sunk (Fw 200 Condor)
14. (Georg Fanderl - ~65,000 tons sunk or damaged)
15. Rudolf Mons – 63,000 tons sunk (+32,000 tons damaged) (Fw 200 Condor)
16. Hans Buchholz – 60,800 tons sunk (+48,000 tons damaged) (Fw 200 Condor)
17. Heinrich Schlosser – 55,000 tons sunk (Fw 200 Condor)