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RK Recipients 1940
I have a list of those aircrew who were awarded the RK up to 6 Oct 40; can anyone tell me the names or supply a list of those (irrespective of whether they were fighter, bomber, recce or Stuka) who were awarded the RK 7 Oct-31 Dec 40.
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Re: RK Recipients 1940
Oberleutnant Gerhard Richter - Staffelkapitän 9./LG-1 - 24th November 1940
Oberleutnant Sigmund-Ulrich Frhr von Gravenreuth - 1./KG-30 - 24th October 1940 Hauptmann Joachim Helbig - 4./LG-1 - 24th October 1940 Hauptmann Robert Kowalewski - Stabsstaffel/X-Fliegerkorps - 24th October 1940 Hauptmann Wilhelm Dürbeck - 8./LG-1 - 3rd December 1940 Oberst Günter Schwartzkopff - Kdr StG-77 - 24th October 1940 Names taken from private collection and Issue 2/1941 of Der Adler. There may well be more.
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Re: RK Recipients 1940
Thanks-a step in the right direction
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Re: RK Recipients 1940
Taken from Wiki for the fighter related RKT (haven't check Eichelaub awardees so you also have Helmut Wick winning the Oakleaves on 6th Oct 1940):
Wilhelm Makrocki - Hauptmann - Gruppenkommandeur I./Zerstörergeschwader 26 "Horst Wessel" - 6 October 1940 Werner Streib - Oberleutnant - Staffelkapitän 2./Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 - 6 October 1940 Hajo Herrmann - Oberleutnant - Staffelkapitän 7./Kampfgeschwader 4 "General Wever" - 13 October 1940 Friedrich Vollbracht - Oberstleutnant - Geschwaderkommodore of Zerstörergeschwader 2 - 13 October 1940 Josef Priller - Oberleutnant - Staffelkapitän 6./Jagdgeschwader 51 - 19 October 1940 Dietrich Hrabak - Hauptmann - Gruppenkommandeur II./Jagdgeschwader 54 - 21 October 1940 Heinz Bretnütz - Hauptmann - Gruppenkommandeur II./Jagdgeschwader 53 - 21 October 1940 Hans Philipp - Oberleutnant - Staffelkapitän 4./Jagdgeschwader 54 - 22 October 1940 Otto Bertram - Hauptmann - Gruppenkommandeur III./Jagdgeschwader 2 "Richthofen" - 28 October 1940 Rolf Kaldrack - Hauptmann - Gruppenkommandeur III./Zerstörergeschwader 76 - 2 November 1940 Heinz Nacke - Hauptmann - Staffelkapitän 6./Zerstörergeschwader 76 - 2 November 1940 Heinz Ebeling - Leutnant - Staffelkapitän 9./Jagdgeschwader 26 "Schlageter" - 5 November 1940 Arnold Lignitz - Oberleutnant - Gruppenkommandeur III./Jagdgeschwader 54 - 5 November 1940 Siegfried Schnell - Leutnant - II./Jagdgeschwader 2 "Richthofen" - 9 November 1940 Karl-Heinz Krahl - Hauptmann - I./Jagdgeschwader 2 "Richthofen" - 13 November 1940 Walter Adolph - Hauptmann - Gruppenkommandeur II./Jagdgeschwader 26 "Schlageter" - 13 November 1940 Joachim Schlichting - Hauptmann - Gruppenkommandeur III./Jagdgeschwader 27 - 14 December 1940 Franz von Werra - Oberleutnant - Adjutant II./Jagdgeschwader 3 - 14 December 1940 Günther Freiherr von Maltzahn - Hauptmann - Gruppenkommandeur II./Jagdgeschwader 53 - 30 December 1940
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Re: RK Recipients 1940
Again, many thanks for this. I am currently away so will comment further on my return. It would appear that there is no single list though
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Re: RK Recipients 1940
I'm sure I have seen a list of RKT in chronological order but for the life of me I can't find it anywhere.
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Re: RK Recipients 1940
Oberleutnant Otto Hintze
Staffelkapitän, 3./Erprobungsgruppe 210 24th November 1940
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Re: RK Recipients 1940
Thanks John. This list would be useful as the list pre-7 Oct 40 is similarly interesting
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Re: RK Recipients 1940
2 others missing are Oblt Bernhard Jope and Maj Edgar Petersen. So far the list which starts 6 April 1940 (Fuchs of KG 26) total 90 Luftwaffe aircrew RK winners
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Re: RK Recipients 1940
I have Jope as 30.12.40 and Petersen as 21.10.40. From the book Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939-1945.
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