Gottfried Dulias

[Artist]

I met Gottfried at a church in NJ, He was giving a lecture about his time as a POW in Russia. The book was not yet finished. He seemed very genuine, even breaking down at times. I did not read the book but I think he wants to tell more about mans inhumanity to man than about being a fighter pilot. He had a good deal of photos of himself from flight school to front line service. Maybe sixty odd years latter but you could still tell it was him. If I remember correctly he told me that one of his victories was not confirmed. I may still have his address if I can find it I will write to him. Any questions you would like me to ask him? Please be nice ! just because we great historians have not heard of him does not make his story a hoax.

[Artist]

Sorry first time I tried to use one of the icons.

[John Manrho]

The doubt is not if he was with the Luftwaffe or not. One of the sites shows him as a Flieger (lowest rank, private in the LW). Millions were in the Luftwaffe he could have been one of them. The point what he claims to have been or has done. He claims to have flown in JG 53 as a Lt. in late 1944, shot down two Spitfires and later flew on the Eastern front with JG 53 (could only have been I./JG 53 if it is true) more claims there (sometimes on sites referred to as Yak's otherwise as I-16's) and shot down on 5th March 1945 and became POW.

Luftwaffe records or claims a relatively complete till late 1944. Records about losses relatively complete till March 1945. It is known that I./JG 53 flew no missions between 2. and 8. March 1945. Nowhere is there any reference to a lt. Gottfried Dulias.

If Mr. Dulias has pictures or documents it can be possible to verify his story. Maybe also not of these pic's show him as only a Flieger or Gefreiter. Finally, his story can be easily verified through the WASt. If he give shis permission his Personelfile can be obtained.

Finally.....his habit of walking in a LW Uniform does not make him very credible...

Enough said, don't want to waist more time on this guy, which, until proven otherwise, is a hoax to me.

Cheers,

John M.

[Thijs Lepstra]

Hello all,

I saw the last message posted in this topic was over a year back but I would like to share the following:

A good friend of mine met Mr. Dulias last year and he asked me if I could find some information about him in Prien's series on JG 53. I couldn't find any indication of Mr. Dulias actually being in this squadron, I thought this was a bit strange.
The same friend of mine notified me that Mr. Dulias wrote a book and I ordered it.
Since I still have to write an essay to complete my history study I decided to compare Dulias´ book `Another bowl of Kapusta´ with some other sources ( including Prien´s JG 53 series and Helmut Lipfert´s war diary.)

If I have some more details I will let you know.

Thijs Lepstra

[Kutscha]

Has anyone found info on the Lt Fred Browning, or on the second Spitfire, he claimed to have shot down?

I can't find any claims of Spitfires by JG53 in Tony Woods list. Lots of Spitfires claimed by JG26 though.

[Thijs Lepstra]

Hello all.

I am still busy with my report on about 15 claims Mr. Dulias makes in his book.

Hopefully I have finished it in a month or so so all of you can read my opion about the claims he makes in the book.

Regards,

Thijs

[DrZink]

Originally Posted by Thijs Lepstra

Hello all.

I am still busy with my report on about 15 claims Mr. Dulias makes in his book.

Hopefully I have finished it in a month or so so all of you can read my opion about the claims he makes in the book.

Regards,

Thijs

Any news yet?

Dr.Z

[Flitzer]

It gets even more interesting!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Gottfried-Dulias...3A6%7C294%3A50

[Marc-André Haldimann]

Originally Posted by Flitzer

It gets even more interesting!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Gottfried-Dulias...3A6%7C294%3A50

Incredible!

IMHO, "Yellow 6" looks like a model, the whole pic like a Photoshop affair...

Thanks for the pointer
Cheers

Marc

[Kutscha]

Looks like a G-10 in the photo.

Yet,