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Re: eArticle available: 'The Life of Otto Kittel'
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Re: eArticle available: 'The Life of Otto Kittel'
Good afternoon Nokose,
you mean Kittel's claim on his last day is his official 267th kill ? If that's true we need a suitable candidate claim for his 266th confirmed kill. Have a nice day, Michael |
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Re: eArticle available: 'The Life of Otto Kittel'
Hello Knusel,
Since the Luftwaffe stopped confirming victory claims in late 1944 from all the information that I have read in previous books, there was no “official” confirmation. So any confirmation was probably at the Jagdgeschwader level and in the pilot flugbuch. There seems to have been a lot of claims in flight books that were denied for lack of a witness. I have read about Soviet aircraft shot down by Bf 109 but no matching German claim. So the possibility of a claim being written into Kittel’s flugbuch is possible. After death claims though could be only symbolic or maybe possibly real. |
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Hello Nokose,
yes, what we need is his Flugbuch. When he died, was there a newspaper headline like "...Otto Kittel, victor in 265/266/267 air combats died yesterday…" ? Cheers, Michael |
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Re: eArticle available: 'The Life of Otto Kittel'
Good morning,
I found no Otto Kittel death announcement in the February issues. Meanwhile, I started working through the article which is very enjoyable to read. I found a minor typo on page2: The Eichenlaub and the Golden Oak Leaves are two different levels of the Ritterkreuz and the correct translation should simply "Oak Leaves". Cheers, Michael |
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What I’ve found is that multiple papers will publish basically the same (centrally approved) article but sometimes some of them have a fuller version than others.
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Re: eArticle available: 'The Life of Otto Kittel'
The victor over Kittel was Vadim Petrovich Komendat. Was is it only aerial victory ?
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Re: eArticle available: 'The Life of Otto Kittel'
Hi Michael,
He claimed three enemy aircraft in the air and five on the ground (source: http://airaces.narod.ru/all15/komendan.htm). Type his name in Google, Вадим Петрович Комендат, and you'll come up with plenty of information about him. Cheers, Andrew A. Air War Publications - www.airwarpublications.com |
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