[Tom Semenza]

Some interesting points about this claim on 28.09.39 as mentioned in Fledgling Eagles. First of all Vitzthum appears to have left JGr. 152 in May 1939 according to Doug Stankey above (Prien in Jagdfliegerverbände der Luftwaffe, Teil 1 says July 1939.) Further there is no listing for this claim in the Prien work. Possibly Vitzthum was on attachment to his old unit from his staff position, but the claim, if confirmed, does not seem to have been credited to JGr. 152. Another anomaly is that in Fledgling Eagles he is shown with the rank of Oberleutnant at the time of his claim, while Doug says that he had been promoted to Hauptmann at the beginning of 1939.

Tom