Kuhl 3./JG 53 30 Sep 39

[RossGmann]

Date 30 Sept, 1939; Unit 3./JG 53; Pilot Karl Kuhl; Aircraft Shot Down P-40 Warhawk; Time 17:10; Location Merzig

Date 30 Sept, 1939; Unit 3./JG 53; Pilot Karl Kuhl; Aircraft Shot Down Hawk-75A; Time 17:10; Location Merzig

Kind regards Ross

[Chris Goss]

Thanks but my Question was not about the shooting down but the chap that baled out

[lilsis]

Hi,


Fritz Kuhl - Uffz. 3./JG53 Fritz Uhl

here from Klaus Zimmer
http://www.flugzeugabstuerze-saarlan...ml#Buedingen02

regards

[Chris Goss]

Great-thanks

[Jochen Prien]

Chris,

it's correct that the name of the second pilot is Fritz Uhl, who was subsequently posted to 7./JG53, where he was wounded in a mid-air collision on 14 October 1939 over Wiesbaden. I have established this some time ago and inserted it in a revised and much augmented JG 53 chronicle which is an ongoing side-project here. I still feel tied to JG 53, especially because of the many former pilots and ground crew men I had the privilege to meet in the late 1980s/early 1990s.

Best

Jochen

[Chris Goss]

Thanks Jochen. I too think of the times I went to the I/JG 53 reunions & put all 1 Staffel survivors from 1940 back in touch. None left now sadly