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Rudolf Sinner
Hallo Leo!
I do not know if you would be interested or not, but there are yet other occasions when Rudolf Sinner was shot down and wounded. One occurred during the Eighth AF's first operation against Berlin, Germany, on 6 Mar. 1944 when Hptm. u. Gr.Kdr. Rudolf Sinner, then leading III./JG 54, was seriously wounded by return fire while engaging B-17s near Bassum at approximately 1215 hr. The aircraft involved was
Bf 109G-6 WNr. 410 557 bl. 2 + .
You have your pick of accounts. According to Ethell/Price, Target Berlin, p. 59, Hptm. Sinner FSA wounded. The III./JG 54 NVLM indicates that Hptm. Sinner forced landed his machine with 30 per. dam.
Even the above episode, serious as it was, did not end Sinner's misadventures. On 4 Apr. 1945 he was again shot down, this time in a Me 262 of III./JG 7. See Foreman, Me 262 Combat Diary, p. 218, and related Me 262 literature.
RA
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