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Originally Posted by TigerTimon
Oberleutnant Arnold Brinkmann scored six confirmed victories during August 1944 (Boiten).
Apparently the Luftwaffe Officer career summaries by Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey show some confounding, unfortunately:
BRINKMANN, Arnold. (DOB: 10.06.15 or 29.03.15). 01.12.41 promo to Oblt. 26.11.43 Oblt., in Stab I./NJG 3. 16/17.12.43 Oblt., Stab I./NJG 3. 22/23.03.44 Oblt., Stab I./NJG 3. 23/24.04.44 with 8./NJG 3. 12/13.08.44 Oblt., 8./NJG 3. 01.10.44 promo to Hptm. 15.10.44 Oblt., 8./NJG 3. 12/13.01.45 Hptm., 8./NJG 3. Credited with 16 victories.
BRINKMANN, Fritz. 12.11.43 Oblt., I./NJG 3. 21.03.44 Oblt., Techn.Offz. of I./JG 302 WIA - shot down by a long range night fighter vic Neuburg, wounded in right hand and left foot - hospitalized - Bf 109 G-6. 12.03.45 Hptm., 8./NJG 3. Believed to have survived the war. Credited with 16 victories.
Boiten gives Fritz Brinkmann as serving with I./JG 301 during July 1944.
Kind regards,
Timon
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Lt. Fritz Brinkmann (*03.12.1919) serving with 7./JG 300, 1./JG 301, crashed in Eimbeckhausen on 26.11.1944.
Fritz Brinkmann rests on the war cemetery in Wunstorf, Lutheran city cemetery.
René