Any Ideas of the RK holders?
 

Just found this photo-anyone have any ideas who the 2 on the right are? The one far right is VERY familiar. What is in the background is also interesting

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He219. We just brought the He219 onto the museum floor at the Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy museum, though still need the props, control surfaces, engine panels, and the radar dipoles to add.

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Thanks Tony but I was aware it was a 219 just wanted people to see it lurking in the background

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Hello Chris,


who do you think it is then? Now I am curious. Could it be Günther Radusch?


Regards,
Timon

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He reminds me of Günther Lützow, but what is he doing at a night fighter base/unit?...

Best regards,

Marcel

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Having just written about Lützow, I would say no. Looks like I have a bit of digging to do as the face is familiar but I cannot place it for certain

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Hello,

(Right) Major Werner Hoffmann RK, DKG ?

Col.

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I would say yes, based on picture in RK of the Luftwaffe by Obermaier.

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Hello,

I used the following as a reference for Werner Hoffmann:

Hunters Of The Reich - Vol.I - Night Fighters.
Williams,David P.
Stroud:Tempus Publishing,2001.
pp.89-124 (Chapter 3 - Major Werner Hoffmann) & 210-211.

Includes a few new photographs of Hoffman (not the usual one, that is used over and over in various publications).

Col.

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Looks a likely candidate. DKiG, wound badge and RK

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Hoffmann had no Night Fighter Clasp with Pendant.


regards

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It's definitely not Werner Hoffmann, could it be Oberleutnant Wilhelm Beier?

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From what I can see, he was not commissioned, no DKiG or wound badge. Perhaps the He 219 is a coincidence-how about Maj Karl-Hermann Millahn?

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Looks likely & I now think the chap in the centre is Hallensleben

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Hi Chris,

You're right.

Although Beier was commissioned, ending the war as Oberleutnant, I can't find any evidence that he was awarded the German Cross in Gold or received a Wound badge, as worn by the chap on the right, who is either an Oberleutnant or Hauptmann.