Majo Klaus Mietusch Personal information and photos

[FLYING SAUCER]

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[Doug Stankey]

Here is what we have about this guy:

MIETUSCH, Klaus.
(DOB: 05.08.18 in Posen).
1938-39 in JG 234, then JG 132 and finally JG 26.
23.09.39 Lt., trf to 7./JG 26.
11.39 Techn.Offz. of Stab/JG 26 (to 14.12.39).
1940 promo to Oblt.
18.09.41 Hptm., appt Staka 7./JG 26 (to 29.06.43).
15.10.42 awarded DKG, 7./JG 26.
05.07.43 Hptm., appt Kdr. III./JG 26 (to 17.09.44).
26.03.44 Hptm., awarded Ritterkreuz, Kdr. III./JG 26.
01.05.44 promo to Maj.
17.09.44 KIA – shot down by P-51 Mustangs while landing following combat over the Rheinland area in the vicinity of Rath-Aldekerk.
18.11.44 Maj., posthumously awarded Eichenlaub, Kdr. III./JG 26.
Credited with 452 combat missions and 76 air victories.


We hope that this helps.

HLdZ
DGS

[Juergen]

As web publisher of the Mietusch photo pic I have to add some amendments which have gathered since the first publication of my Boenninghardt a/f homepage in Sept. 2005.
The photo is an excerpt from one of the Dr. Prien books and shows pilots of 6./JG 26 at Boenninghardt along with Mietusch whose rank was Leutnant then (allegedly with 7./JG 26). The print was quite surely made in late summer 1939 (II./JG 26 was stationed there 25. Aug. to 02. Nov. 1939).
I never noticed it so far, but the lady left from Mietusch in fact seems to wear a bride gown, so there is some little probability that this is a take of Mietusch´s wedding fete with his comrades of II./JG 26.
I live near Mietusch´s death place of 17. Sept. 44 but could not locate the precise spot so far. There is an aviation art of William Beyer´s first air victory, which (not only) I must dismiss as nonsense for some reasons. There were no glider activities in our region (the area around Geldern). Mietusch was killed rather during a belly landing or emergency landing as there never was an a/f at Aldekerk. I fear his defeat was rather an air-to- ground than an air-to-air victory, though I do not intend to put Beyer´s first acknowledged claim into doubt.
To my knowledge Mietusch has his last rest at the Nordfriedhof Düsseldorf.

kind regards from Juergen Haus, Issum

[thenelm]

From Don Pearson: Nitpicking, but wasn't his aircraft "white 13"?

Don is correct, he also flew "white 2" during this time frame. There is an extract of his Flugbuch out there in the ether that lists many of the other machines he flew in the early WWII years.