Future DKiG & higher winners of the Legion Condor
 

I was wondering if anyone had as complete list as possible (or if not than just a number) of how many Legion Condor pilots went on to win at least the DKiG in WW2?
I am asking as I will soon have a tunic belonging to a flyer who earned the DKiG & Spanish Cross but the tunic is un-named and I wondered if it was possible to narrow down the list of possibilities. The rank on the tunic is Hauptmann so I assume he would of been below that rank during his service in Spain (maybe even an NCO who was subsequently commissioned perhaps?). Unfortunately there is no tailors label to provide any clues as to year or area.

Re: Future DKiG & higher winners of the Legion Condor
 

Do you have any names in particular? Looking up Condor Legion guys and comparing to later DKiG guys is a pretty large order.

Re: Future DKiG & higher winners of the Legion Condor
 

Unfortunately not. There is a list of LC pilots here who shot down aircraft during the civil war and for some it lists DKiG &/or RK and I was just wondering if there was a more complete listing available somewhere...

http://www.luftwaffe.cz/spanishcw.html

Re: Future DKiG & higher winners of the Legion Condor
 

Matching up the fighter pilots is relatively easy, but there were also many guys who didn't fly fighters who were later decorated - many whose names may not appear in the known crew list such as published in Ries/Ring's 'Legion Condor', or who, because they weren't fighter pilots, just don't appear on the radar so to speak. Hajo Herrmann was flyng Ju 52s - probably a bad example, but that was one name that came to mind because I read his book. Another example may be Hans Krug who flew with JG 26 during WWII. I can't find any reference to him from Spain, yet a nice photo of his 'black 5' from 5./JG 26 recently published in the latest 'Lw in Focus' (and mis-identified as being the machine of Walter Schneider) has an rather large inscription in Spanish in front of the '5'. Was he in Spain? He didn't win the RK or DKiG, but he certainly was a notable early-war pilot from JG 26, but became a POW during the BoB, prior to the creation of the DKiG.