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Originally Posted by Jan Gazda
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Fw.Kroll Gerhard, 9./JG54, Luftkampf with P 51, KIA,
FW 190 D-9 W.Nr.?, ? %, Fl. Pl. Hesepe
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Just a correction: Gerhard Kroll was not KIA -- I spoke to him at a fighter pilot symposium in the late 1990's and he passed away in March 2002.
On Feb 21 1945, his aircraft's tail surfaces were damaged in combat with P-51s, and he landed at Hesepe. The next day, his aircraft was damaged again, this time in combat with Tempests and P-51s (source: loss list in Axel Urbanke's "Green Hearts.")
Leon Venter