A?? RE: Robert Pautner of III/JG26
 

Guys:

The film of Robert Pautner's ME109 getting shot up by A P47 is among the most frequently shown pieces of guncamera footage that I know; now, does anybody know what happened to Pautner after being shot down? AFAIK, according to Caldwell's JG26 War Diary, Pautner survived 'wounded' but there was no further entries with JG26....

TiA

nickm

Re: A?? RE: Robert Pautner of III/JG26
 

Nick,

I'm unaware of this footage; is online -Youtube perhaps?

Thanks,

Rob Romero

Re: A?? RE: Robert Pautner of III/JG26
 

Rob, I dunno; Personally I didn't know it until I saw a still from the JG26 Photo album & recognized it as the film 'cut' in question: a sort of 5 O'clock high view of a 'mottled pattern' ME109 with underwing gunpods visible & it was streaming smoke/coolant & 'sparkling' from .50 cal strikes...if it's on YouTube it's probably on one of those guncamera compilations.

NM

Robert Pautner of III/JG26
 

Pautner disappears from my JG 26 files after his injury, and I don't now if he returned to combat. The Luftwaffe personnel files have opened up a lot since I fought many losing battles with the WASt in the 1980s & 90s. Someone may have newly-released data to share on this board -- I'd be interested in anything that turns up.

(Incidentally, the original identification of Pautner's a/c in the gun camera film was my own, using my usual criteria: matching date, location, and circumstances, and no contrary data. As we know, there are no guarantees in Luftwaffe research.)

Re: Robert Pautner of III/JG26
 

Why, thanks Mr. Don!

nickm