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Heinrich Ehrler
Hi guys
Rather interesting discussion on the death of Major Ehrler. I have always seen that he died on 4 April 1945 while ramming an opponent after having claimed his final two victories although as has been alluded to earlier there is some doubt as to if this really did happen. Concerning the events described above, I should point out that all accounts state that he was killed in action against USAAF B-17 four-engined bombers and not USAAF B-24 four-engined bombers. According to Theo Boiten and Martin Bowman in Battles with the Luftwaffe: The Bomber Campaign Against Germany, 1942-45 the only Me 262 pilots that claimed B-24 bombers that day were Leutnant Rudolf Rademacher (102 victories, RK) of 11./JG 7 and Leutnant Fritz Müller (22 vctories) of III./JG 7. Both pilots brought down their victims with R4M rockets and it appears that Rademacher was the pilot that downed B-24M (44-50838) while Müller downed B-24H (42-95298) as he saw six men bail out of his victim and the first bomber had only one survivor.
Horrido!
Leo
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