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Re: Can we identify whose Stuka this is?
IAN,
I guess you answered yourself...I mean, the 300th maiden flight was on the 1st October 1941 (from what I understood from the painting and "rudder art"). And....from your own information Oblt. Hartmut Schairer. 7/St.G. 1. was awarded the RK on 30.8.1941 with over 150 FF. and killed on 19.7.1942 with 562 FF. Let's assume he had 200 missions when he was awarded the Knight Cross....in almost one year he flew some 362 missions, something like 30 missions a month. So, by October 1941 he would have something around 260 missions....which is reasonably close.
The other main idea is: Would you, being a RK winner like to be photographed on the tail of another RK winner, or on the tail and in front of your own aircraft? With exception those Staffeln or Geschwader grouping pictures, generally we do find the own "owner" of the aircraft in front of his machine...his regular machine....so, I would bet this is SCHAIRER's machine indeed....
Maybe someone can add the werknummer and codes of the machine he was flying in, when he was shot down and killed in action.
By the way...congratulations, a most beautiful set of pictures and very very nice "rudder art".
Most humbly yours,
Adriano S. Baumgartner
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