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Re: Identity of Stuka Knights Cross holder sought!
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Originally Posted by Doug Stankey
Combing through the Obermaier book about Stuka and ground-attack Ritterkreuz holders, the fellow appears to be:
25.07.44 MIA - shot down in the Lvov area and rather than be captured by the partisans, he shot himself but merely became blinded; German troops tried to rescue him and his gunner, by which point three days later he was dead.
Credited with over 900 combat missions.
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Pretty tragic turn of events for Haker, but does anyone know if the troops succeeded in rescuing the gunner?
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Ruy Horta
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And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine;
A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A traveller between life and death;
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