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Originally Posted by leonventer
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
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Guys: IF I'm not mistaken (AND I might well be...) Hans Prager also survived the war, no? I don't recall him being a casualty in either the Urbanke book or in Caldwell's War Diary;
nickm