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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.