Three pilots and their planes

[Laurent Rizzotti]

Oudjat, the picture by martin is the same as in the "JG 1" book I have. As he said Overhagen is the one leaning on the wing.

Vinnie, you made some more assumptions that what I did.

Reichstein and Job were members of 8./JG 1 on 12 January 1943

Job later scored victories with 10./JG 11, between Novembre 1943 and January 1945. It seems logical he became a member of I./JG 11 when III./JG 1 was renamed.

As I said no trace of Reichstein, so no idea if he did the same.

I know that Overhagen was a member of 8./JG 1 before 19 August 1943 (date of Zuzic's death) and was Stka of the unit from 3 Nov 43 until his death. I have no idea if he was a member of the old 8./JG 1 before his renaming in 2./JG 11. In April 1943 the whole structure of III./JG 1 became the I./JG 11 and a new III./JG 1 was built from scratch. It is very probable that Overhagen was not a member of III./JG 1 before April 1943, and that he ever was in the same unit as Job and Reichstein, unless you have a trace of it.

For me these three men were part of two different units carrying the same name in different periods.

[vinnie]

Originally Posted by Laurent Rizzotti

Vinnie, you made some more assumptions that what I did.

For me these three men were part of two different units carrying the same name in different periods.

Sorry, you are right. I drew my conclusions a little bit too quick!
It's very hard to find all relevant information on the web. I found their names and thought that they were in the same staffel in the first months of the year, but could not find anything about them in the summer period. The only thing I could discover was the picture of Overhagen and Zuzic together, taken in the summer of 1943. Job and Reichstein are even more difficult to research, since nothing is known about them during the spring till winter period of 1943.

[ouidjat]

Hence it's Zuzic plane...

[Laurent Rizzotti]

By the way I found in one loss list I have that Fw. Egon Reichstein of 2./JG 11 was killed when his Fw 190 was shot down in an air battle against USAAF near Gotha on 24 February 1944. No WNr known.

[pietrzak]

Hi Doug - just an update on the Kracker archive - it now has 23,000 aircrew listed!
Tom is entering new data almost every day.
http://aircrewremembrancesociety.com...erArchive.html
Kelvin