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(?) B-17 lost near Kitzingen 14.10.1943
Hello,
my brother found this link in the Flugzeug Forum some days earlier. https://www.flugzeugforum.de/threads/unbekannter-jagdflieger.86241/ I think it could have been a thread here but my search was without results. is there anything known about the German FF Fw. Baur Jg(r) 104? Thank you very much and Best Wishes 2018 Daniel |
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Re: (?) B-17 lost near Kitzingen 14.10.1943
I belive this is Fw. Walter Baur, 2./JG 104. Later with 9./JG 27 as a Leutnant and shot down on 5.7.1944. I believe he later returned to his unit, but I have no other details on him.
Last edited by John Manrho; 28th December 2017 at 10:13. Reason: typo |
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Re: (?) B-17 lost near Kitzingen 14.10.1943
Hello John,
thanks for your fast reply. In Jochen Priens book about III. and IV./JG 27 Ltn. W. Baur is listet (under the mentioned date) in the Text as KIA but in the loss-list as WIA (Luftkampf, Raum Seine-Mündung, 100% Bf 109 G-6 440 924 ge. 4 + I) Well - what's right? KR Daniel |
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Re: (?) B-17 lost near Kitzingen 14.10.1943
The NVM says with handwritten note that he "returned injured". I have no details about his exploits after 5.7.1944.
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Re: (?) B-17 lost near Kitzingen 14.10.1943
Hello again,
meanwhile I read the interesting book "Alarmstart, the German Fighter Pilot's Experience in the Second World War" by Patrick G. Eriksson. Here Feldwebel Felix Sauer (JG 104) tells his story of the event. So I believe he is the pilot I was looking for, because his words match the text mentioned in the quoted diary. Sauer, formerly 10/JG 53, was promoted to Leutnant by the end of the war. Regards Daniel |
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Re: (?) B-17 lost near Kitzingen 14.10.1943
I researched this kill for Felix Sauer and managed to contact a number of survivors from the B-17. The gunner whom he met in hospital was the one he wanted to contact only for me to find out he had recently passed away
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