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Were was Horst Carganico born?
Hello
Where was Maj .Horst Carganico of JG5, JG77 who scored 60 kills in WWII (KIFA 27 May 1944) a Knight Cross Winner. born? His father a well known WWI flyer worked in Mexico as a technical consultant to the Mexican Air Force from 1926-1929. Cheers Santiago |
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Re: Were was Horst Carganico born?
Horst Carganico was born on 27 September 1917 at Breslau. He was the son of General der Flieger, Victor Carganico
Source: http://www.luftwaffe.cz/carganico.html All the best Adriano |
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Re: Were was Horst Carganico born?
Thanks for the answer!
Cheers Santiago |
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Re: Were was Horst Carganico born?
Additional information on Horst Carganico and his father.
Victor Carganico was born in Weenzen on July 15, 1887. He enlisted army in 1907 and year later was commissioned. He has been a Adjutant of Flieger Bataillon 4 from 1913 to March 1916 and became field combat flier (Feldpilot) with German and Austrian badge. With Oberleutnant rank served from March 1916 on Western front as a pilot of Roland Walfisch aircraft of Kagohl 1. His usual observer used to be Oblt. Oskar Knofe. Carganico was awarded with Prussian crown order 4th class without swords. Even during spring 1916 he took over command of Kapfstaffel 8 of Kagohl 2 using Walfisch as well as LVG C.II aircraft. One of his pilots was future legendary fighter Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen born, like Carganico´s son, in Silesia. The Kasta 8 was involved in fights on western as well as Eastern front. From June 1918 until December of same year Carganico served in Flieger Abteilung 34, 11 and Abteilung 203. Retired in December 1919. His son Horst was born on September 27, 1917 in old German Silesian city Breslau (today Wroclaw) and entered the Luftwaffe in 1937 as a ‘Fahnenjunker’. In 1939 he was assigned to Stab JG1 as a technical officer and in the following year became Adjutant of II./JG 77 in Norway. During the summer of 1940 he opened his score sheet with five RAF coastal command aircraft. In early 1941 he became Staffelkapitän of 1./JG77 just prior to the invasion of Russia and scored one other RAF aircraft victory. After the invasion of Russia, together with Hugo Dahmer (45 v., RK) he became the most successful fighter against Russians so far North during 1941. Carganico was the second pilot in this area to be awarded with Ritterkreuz (first came to Dahmer). Carganico received the award two days before his 24th birthday and after his 27th victory (with rank of Oberleutnant). In early 1942 he became first Staffelkapitän of 6./JG 5 (renamed from 1./JG 77) and during spring of 1942 had achieved another 23 kills over six weeks. He was awarded the ‘Deutsches Kreuz’ in Gold on May 25, 1942. On the 1st June 1942 until April 1944 he became the Gruppenkommandeur of II./JG 5, then appointed with rank of Major as a CO of I./JG 5 in Reich Defence. Carganico was killed on May 27, 1944 after combat with B-17’s. His Bf 109 G-5 (W. Nr. 110 087) had been hit and badly damaged. Coming into land at Chevry airfield, southwest of St. Die. France he hit High Voltage cables, crashed and was killed. Horst Carganico had over 600 combat sorties and 60 victories including 6 in West. Victor Carganico was later executed by Russian soldiers on May 27, 1945 in Neugrimnitz farm near Angermünde, exactly one year after his son death and three weeks after the ‘official’ end of WWII! |
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Re: Were was Horst Carganico born?
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"During Wrocław's early history, its control changed hands between Bohemia (till 992 and then 1038-1054), the Kingdom of Poland (992-1038 and 1054-1202), and, after the fragmentation of the Kingdom of Poland, the Piast ruled duchy of Silesia. One of the most important events in those times was the foundation of the Diocese of Wrocław by the Polish Duke (from 1025 king) Bolesław the Brave in 1000, which, together with the Bishoprics of Kraków and Kołobrzeg, was placed under the Archbishopric of Gniezno in Greater Poland, founded by Otto III in 1000. In the first half of the thirteenth century Wrocław even became the political center of the divided Polish kingdom" Regards |
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Re: Were was Horst Carganico born?
Quote from the same Wikipedia article you took your previous quote from:
"The number of Poles in Breslau dropped from 2 percent before World War I to 0.5 percent after the reconstitution of Poland." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breslau Thus, at the time of Carganico's birth (our topic), Breslau was definitely a German city. The rest is... history.
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Dénes Last edited by Dénes Bernád; 14th August 2009 at 20:06. |
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Re: Were was Horst Carganico born?
Not yours, of course. That's why you don't care about basic details.
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Re: Were was Horst Carganico born?
By the way, was Horst Carganico married? :-)
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Re: Were was Horst Carganico born?
Here a few Fotos.
Greetings Peglar Last edited by Peglar; 20th October 2010 at 20:26. |
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Re: Were was Horst Carganico born?
hello, have you seen on www.luftwaffe.be, there is a new section of original photos with signatures and there are several with Carganico
Regards Phil |
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