Hauptmann Albert Kind. + 30.1.1944?

[Ian Jewison]

Happy New Year!

I trying to find info on the the following officer...it would appear he is lost in time with some references, perhaps through typos or difficult handwriting of the day!!

Kind, Albert
Born 20.7.1913 in Aachen, Killed in action 30.1.1944

Ranks:
1.6.1940 Oberleutnant
1.10.1942 Hauptmann

Units:
? - 31.1.40: 1/I/Jagdgeschwader 2 "Richthofen"
1.2.40 - 17.2.40: Jagdfliegerschule 4, Fürth
18.2.40 - 18.7.40: 3/Jagdfliegerschule 3, Stolp-Reitz
19.3.40 - 21.11.40: 3/Jagdgeschwader 77
22.11.40 - 30.11.40: 12/IV/Jagdgeschwader 51
1.12.40 - 7.1.41: 2/Jagdfliegerschule 2, Zerbst
8.1.41 - 7.5.41: Jagdfliegerschule 4, Fürth
8.5.41 - 14.9.42: Jagdfliegerschule 2, Zerbst
15.9.42 - 6.11.42: 2/I/Jagdgdeschwader 26
7.11.42 - 31.3.43: Jagdgeschwader 52
1.4.43 - 11.12.43: Jadggruppe Ost
12.12.43 - 30.1.44: 7/III/Jagdgeschwader 1

Awards:
1.10.1939 Commemorative Medal of 1.10.1938
24.9.1840 Iron Cross 2nd Class
6.10.1942 Operational Flying Clasp for Fighters in Bronze

I find no info however with JG 2, 51, 26 and 52 !!

JG 77. Prien. Page 394.
24.9.1940. 1/JG 77 Oblt. Kind shot down and belly landed near Wissant. Bf 109 E-4, Werk Nr. 1500 (recorded as 1/JG 77 and wounded but no wound badge or hospitalisation in Soldbuch)

The BoB. Then and Now. Page 656
Tuesday 24.9.1940.
1/JG 77 Bf 109 E-4 (1500) damaged by ground fire during combat sortie and crashed on return to Wissant. Oblt. Kind wounded.
3/JG 77 Bf 109 E-4 (5213) crashed on landing at Marquise-West due to mechanical failure during operational sortie. Pilot unhurt. (Kind?)

Could this info be wrong somewhere as Kind was awared EK II 24.9.1940 the same day as either combat or crash landed!?!? Perhaps it is I. for the Gruppe rather than 1 as in Staffel? Or pergaps there was another Oblt. Kind in I. Gruppe?

Die Flugzeugführer - Ausbildung der Deutschen Luftwaffe 1935-1945. Carlsen u. Meyer. Page 24
3/JFS 2 StKpt. Oblt. Kind, Alfons 24.4.41-14.9.42

Again a typo somehwere as this is the same time Albert Kind was at JFS 2.

JG 1 und 11. Prien u. Rodeike. Pages 551, 698 and 1159.
Killed in aerial combat as Staka 7. St. with P47. Crashed around Deventer. Bf 109 G-6. Werk Nr. 410565. Black 1 +

I find no info however with JG 2, 51, 26 and 52 !! Still searching....

/Ian