Bio info needed on Hptm. von Klitzing, Kdr III./StG51 Poland and WC

[Doug Stankey]

A search of of officer career files reveals:

KLITZING, Heinrich von.
(DOB: 22.12.02).
10.09.24 entered service with the Heer (Infanterie).
01.07.31 Segelfliegerschule (glider school) Rossitten (to 10.08.31).
01.10.32 flight training in Russia (to 31.05.33).
01.07.33 Beobachter (observer) training in Italy (to 30.09.33).
01.10.33 trf to the Luftwaffe and sent to Berlin for navigation training (to 31.01.34).
01.02.34 aerial photography training (to 31.03.34).
01.04.34 fighter pilot training at Jagdfliegerschule Schleissheim (to 31.10.35).
01.11.34 Generalstab and technical training at the Lufttechnische Akademie Berlin-Gatow (to 30.04.37).
01.12.34 promo to Hptm.
03.01.35 navigation and radio course at Ln.-Schule Halle (to 31.01.35).
03.06.35 attended Luftkreisschule II in Berlin (1. Lehrgang) (to 28.09.35).
01.05.37 trf to LKS Dresden.
01.08.38 appt Staka in III./KG 255.
01.05.39 Hptm., appt Kdr. III./St.G. 51.
09.05.40 Maj., Kdr. III./St.G. 51 (to 17.05.40).
17.05.40 KIA – in Ju 87 B-2 shot down by RAF fighters N of Landrecies.


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