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Re: Karl Mentnich
Hello Teresa Maria,
Karl Mentnich, last rank: Oberfeldwebel, born 6.5.1914 at Aachen. Known to have flown at I./JG27, 4./JG27 and Jagdgruppe West.
Filed 8 claims: 5 fighters, 1 two-engined a/c and 2 heavy bombers (Source: Hans Ring Collection).
Tony Woods claims-list has a B24 on 11. Jan 44 and a P38 on
29. Jan 44, but only from "secondary sources". This is a hint, that this claims were not accepted by RLM.
Mentnich was shot down by fighters on 22. April 1944 near Gießen airfield. He parchuted and was lightly wounded. At that time he was with 4./JG 27 flying a Bf 109G6, black 9, Werknummer 162.696 (Source: NVM WASt).
I have no information on his further military or civil career.
HTH
Carl
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Carl E. Charles
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