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Re: Maj Dietrich Puttfarken, KG51, Lost 23.04.44.
This is what we currently have on this guy:
PUTTFARKEN, Dietrich.
(DOB: 30.04.20 in Hamburg).
1940 in KG 51.
02.07.42 Oblt., awarded DKG, I./KG 51.
07.10.42 Oblt. in 1./KG 51, awarded the Ritterkreuz for completing 250 combat missions, sinking a submarine and several merchant ships, and destroying 30 aircraft on the ground and 3 important bridges along the Don.
21.11.42 Hptm., appt Staka 11./KG 51 (to 24.04.44).
c.02.44 Staka Fernnachtjägerstaffel/KG 51.
01.04.44 promo to Maj.
23.04.44 reported MIA over the North Sea during an attack on Cambridge/England.
Credited with 269 combat missions and 5 air victories.
LdZ
DGS
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