[Delmenhorst]

Normally people on this forum are quite friendly and goes a long way to help people with their questions. We quite often spend a lot of our free time helping people with information about their relatives etc.

Unfortunately sometimes not so friendly people comes up with phony questions and waste our time.

Peter Mehrtens never recieved the Ritterkreuz mit Schwerten und Eichenlaub. Only 160 members of the Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine and SS was issued that medal. It is equvilant to the british Victoria Cross and every member is known.

There are no mention of Mehrtens being issued a medal by Hitler himself.

Lewis1 claims that Mehrtens was shot down over Scotland by American Thunderbolts in November 1944. No P-47 pilot made any claims over Scotland in November 1944.

The article in mweekly claims that Glasgow was attacked by Ju 88's in November 1944. I don't think so and I would like to see a statement.

Mehrtens (or more correctly Lewis1) claims that he was a member of Legion Condor. Quite strange since he is not listed as a member of that unit.