View Single Post
  #28  
Old 6th July 2020, 12:03
Johannes Johannes is offline
Alter Hase
 
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 1,433
Johannes is a jewel in the roughJohannes is a jewel in the roughJohannes is a jewel in the rough
Re: Barkhorn: claims vs. victories

Hi Guys

I looked into Düttmann, like Hartmann/Batz it's hard to pin him down, however we do have the witness to each of his claims. I tried liking him to other pilots, during this I did a check on Fonnekold, and agree with Boris Ciglic, without having Russian losses his claims pattern is not suspicious, moreover no link to anybody really.

So all of Düttmann's witnesses seem okay with three exceptions, two of which never had claims themselves, but there is always other inducements I guess, the third is Rudolf Fritze, he shines more less than a month, then is gone, don't know where or what happened to him, but each of his own claims was with Düttmann during Düttmann's most lucrative moment, the ratio is two "kills" for Düttmann for one to Fritze, and he was of very low rank a gefreiter.

I'll do a new thread to see if some well informed member knows anything about him.

Question for Gabor, is your opinion that Düttmann was always over-claiming, or was there certain periods?

Kind Regards

Johannes
Reply With Quote