Walther Dahl

[Jean-Yves Lorant]

Hi Michael,

Except for his inexplicable lie about the September 13 voluntary collision, the victories claimed by Walther Dahl during the year 1944 (he confused however November 2 and 5) are consistent and credible. The discomfort settles as soon as he takes over as Inspekteur der Tagjäger at the end of January 1945, as apparently continues to fly regularly with his wingmen from the Stab./JG 300. I would like to know from what airfields it happened. Assigned to the Stab./JG 300 at the fall of 1944, Unteroffizier Günther Ritzka was certain never have seen his former Kommodore again from February to May 1945.
Claims 105-116: Dahl was flying Fw 190s. He flew again a Me 262 on 24 and 26 April 1945.
The analytical work done by Nick Hector about Wilhelm Lemke and Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel is very impressive, my congratulations. When I visited Wolfgang Ewald in the 1980s, he was still angry about his former wingman von Einsiedel, who had joined the communist theses during his captivity in the Soviet Union and came to boast of the advantages of the "Soviet paradise" to a stunned Wolfgang Ewald. As always in this kind of conversion, we may wonder if this was not a strategy to shorten the captivity duration ...


Regards
Jean-Yves Lorant