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Old 24th August 2010, 23:21
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Re: Lt. Gotthard Sachsenberg NJG 3

A search of our files reveals the following:

SACHSENBERG, Heinz (“Heino” and “Wimmersal”).
(DOB: 12.07.22 in Dessau).
c.11.42 Feldwebel, assigned to 6./JG 52 on completion of training.
(n.d.) 11.10.43 Fw., awarded the Ehrenpokal.
17.10.43 Fw., awarded DKG, 6./JG 52.
23.08.44 severely WIA.
09.06.44 Fahnenjunker Fw., awarded Ritterkreuz, 6./JG 52.
04.45 Lt., in JV 44 - set up and led the Papagei Staffel.
Credited with c.520 combat missions and 104 air victories.
†17.06.51 in Lich of complications from his wartime wounds.

A search of the Tom Kracker Archive also reveals:

Sachsenberg, Heinz "Wimmersal". - Lt., 104 victories, 520 combat missions - Born in Dessau, Sachsen-Anhalt. -
6./JG-52 (10/42 Russia), 6./JG-52 (6/44 Manzar Romania), 9/JG-7 (3/45), JV-44 (4/45)Bf 109G "Yellow 8" (1/44), Bf 109G-6 Wk# 166233 "Yel 1"(lost) in 6/JG-52, Fw 190D-9 "Red 1" in JV-44, Me 262 briefly in JG-7RK(6/9/44), DK-G(10/17/43), EP(10/2/43), EK 1 & 2, Wound Badge, Fighter Operational Clasp w/Pend520 combat missions. All victories in the East. His first known Soviet victory, an Il-5 SW of Novorossisk on 21 April, 1943. A P-39 2 km W of Abinskaja on 8 May, 1943. A P-40 7 km S of Krimskaya on 15 May, 1943. A Yak-1 E of Kubardinka on 25 May, 1943. An Il-2 on 26 May, 1943. An Il-5 on 27 May, 1943. Two Il-5's on 29 May, 1943. Three Yak-1's and an Il-5 on 26 July, 1943. Four victories on 4 August, 1943. Two Yak-7's on 17 March, 1944. His 103rd victory, a P-51 over Hungary on 3 March, 1945. His 104th and last victory, a P-39 on 16 April, 1945. One victory in the West. One Motor Torpedo Boat destroyed. He was the cousin of Pour le Merite fighter pilot Gotthard Sachsenberg, and the brother of Gotthard Sachsenberg, a Night Fighter pilot, KIA April, 1944. Heinz was seriously wounded in combat on 23 August, 1944 in the "Yellow 1" in aerial combat with P-51's over Romania, and died of his wounds (complications) years later, 17 June, 1951. The 190D was used to protect the Me 262 from prowling American fighters. His D-9 may have been Werk # 600424 (or 800424), and bore the inscription "Sell my clothes, I'm going to heaven".

Web page http://www.luftwaffe.cz/sachsenberg.html reveals many more details.


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