Orlando Chittaro/Ciciaro (Luftwaffe pilot Bf109)
 

Dears,

Have You something more about Italian pilot Bf109 :

Orlando Chittaro/Ciciaro (19 years old) +23/24.03.1945 crashed near Carlsberg (now in area of mountian / Poland).
His Grave in: Cmentary Szalejów Dolny (Kłodzko)
https://www.straznicyczasu.pl/downlo...01e0b7feedbe8c
Source: https://www.straznicyczasu.pl/viewtopic.php?t=22156

Here his photo (as Luftwaffe pilot):
https://d-art.ppstatic.pl/kadry/k/r/...d5_o_large.jpg
Description: German soldier Orlando Ciciaro crashed near Karłów on March 23, 1945. Photo: private archive.

Source below:
https://gazetawroclawska.pl/wyjasnio...owie/ar/373569

My question:
what type/version of Bf109-? (LW unit?)
probably: Me-109 G-6 o WNr.19996 / 2/NAGr-2

BR

Kris

Re: Orlando Chittaro/Ciciaro (Luftwaffe pilot Bf109)
 

You assumption is correct

Re: Orlando Chittaro/Ciciaro (Luftwaffe pilot Bf109)
 

Hello,
I think he was not a born Italian but a German citizen with Italian parents! In the mid-late 19th. century, many Italians were employed in railway construction in Germany. Many of them stayed in Germany and married a German woman. The same case was with former construction workers from Poland and Croatia.
Bests,
hans