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Old 25th March 2014, 21:38
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Re: Ofw. Kurt Welter 5./JG302 Jan-Mar 1944

...Rod, as Erich says there is another pic of Welter in front of his 'porcupine' here, this one is dated 'January 1944' (from J-Y Lorant's "Le Focke Wulf 190")

from M. Lorant's interview with Fritz Gniffke (6./JG 302) published in France in the late 1970s..

" ..Welter had downed two Lancasters during the night of 2-3 December 1943, bringing his total to 11, all returned on wilde Sau sorties. On the night of 21-22 January he had run into a Mosquito north of Magdeburg, but the English pilot had managed to get away..Welter was our role model - we certainly didn't have any others.."

Re-reading Gniffke's remarks you get the impression that had he been aware of any other Welter successes during this period he would probably have mentioned them..

(FWIW I have featured the recollections of both Fritz Gniffke and Walter Schermutzki (4./JG 302) in a two-part article -"wilde Sau und Moskito Jagd"- to appear in a UK magazine sometime soon..)
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