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Name : Hannes Trautloft Died : 11th January 1995 Air Victories : 61.00 Awards : Knights Cross |
Hannes Trautloft is one of the Luftwaffe's great fighter leaders, scoring his first air victory in the Spanish Civil War in August 1936. Returning to Germany in 1937 he joined the national aerobatics team flying the Me109. Soon after the outbreak of World War II, Hannes took command of I./JG20 taking part in the Battle of Britain, before moving to the Balkans as Kommodore of JG54. Now leading the group on the Russian Front, JG54 took part in the heavy fighting, first in the Me109, then the Fw190. In the summer of 1943 Hannes Trautloft joined General Galland's staff. As a 'mutineer' he was sacked by Goering, thus ending an illustrious combat career comprising 550 combat missions and 57 aerial victories. he died 11th January 1995. |
Artwork signed by this Pilot or Aircrew |
  Clipped Signature - Hannes Trautloft. |   Green Heart Warriors by Nicolas Trudgian. (B) |   Aces on the Western Front by Robert Taylor. |
  Eagles out of the Sun by Robert Taylor. |
Artwork featuring the mounted signature of this Pilot or Aircrew |
  Greenheart Warrior by Ivan Berryman. (B) |   Fw190A-4, Winter 1944 by Ivan Berryman. (B) |   The Last Patrol by David Pentland. (C) |
  Dawn Eagles Rising by Robert Taylor. (AP) |  Winter Combat by Nicolas Trudgian. |   Breaking Cover by Robert Taylor. (C) |
Artwork with companion print(s) featuring the mounted signature of this Pilot or Aircrew |
  Valiant Response by Robert Taylor. (C) |
Breguet 19
Potez
Nieuport 46
Potez
SB-3
I-18
I-18
SB-3
SB-3
SB-3
I-18
I-18
Known Victory Claims : | |||||||
Date | Rank | Squadron | Claimed | Location | Time | Aircraft Flown | Notes |
25/08/1936 | Oblt. | Breguet 19 | - | - | |||
30/08/1936 | Oblt. | Potez | - | - | |||
01/09/1936 | Oblt. | Nieuport 46 | - | - | |||
30/09/1936 | Oblt. | Potez | - | - | |||
08/12/1936 | Oblt. | - | - | ||||
05/09/1939 | Hptm. | Warta 15km NW Sieradz | 8.2 | ||||
29/05/1940 | Hptm. | JG 20 | SE Dünkirchen | 18.4 | |||
31/05/1940 | Hptm. | JG 20 | N. Dünkirchen | 18.06 | |||
19/07/1940 | Hptm. | S. Folkestone | 13.42 | ||||
08/08/1940 | Hptm. | Dungeness | 12.48 | ||||
25/08/1940 | Major | Ärmelkanal | 20.2 | ||||
07/09/1940 | Major | Maidstone | 19 | ||||
27/10/1940 | Major | Ashford | 15.05 | ||||
22/06/1941 | Major | NW Mariampol | 16.48 | ||||
23/06/1941 | Major | SB-3 | Kussen | 10.15 | |||
24/06/1941 | Major | N. Tauroggen | 19.3 | ||||
25/06/1941 | Major | S. Schaulen | 9.3 | ||||
30/06/1941 | Major | N. Dünaburg | 15.1 | ||||
30/06/1941 | Major | N. Dünaburg | 15.3 | ||||
06/07/1941 | Major | SE Ostrow | 19.1 | ||||
13/07/1941 | Major | I-18 | NE Šoltzy | 17.34 | |||
14/07/1941 | Major | I-18 | SE Kingisepp | 18.12 | |||
21/07/1941 | Major | Waluj | 21 | ||||
24/07/1941 | Major | SB-3 | E. Porchow | 19.52 | |||
24/07/1941 | Major | SB-3 | - | - | |||
24/07/1941 | Major | SB-3 | E. Dno | 20 | |||
17/09/1941 | Major | I-18 | - | - | |||
04/10/1941 | Major | Leningrad/Ljuban | 10.4 | ||||
07/10/1941 | Major | Smolino | 15.1 | ||||
07/10/1941 | Major | I-18 | Smolino | 15.15 | |||
25/10/1941 | Major | Budogoschtsch | 9.38 | ||||
25/10/1941 | Major | NE Oskuje | 14.26 | ||||
29/10/1941 | Major | vor Tichwin | 11.07 | ||||
08/11/1941 | Major | - | - | ||||
09/05/1942 | Major | - | 15.5 | ||||
09/05/1942 | Major | - | 16.1 | ||||
30/05/1942 | Major | - | 9.24 | ||||
05/08/1942 | Major | SE Shimsk: 6500m (Novgorod) | 18.35 | ||||
09/08/1942 | Major | NE Reschew: 1000m (Reshew) | 10 | ||||
22/08/1942 | Major | N. Uljanovo | 10.15 | ||||
28/08/1942 | Major | N. Rschev: 800m | 5.12 | ||||
17/01/1943 | Major | N. Mga: 200m | 10.01 | ||||
14/02/1943 | Obstlt. | 10 523: 300m | 14.1 | ||||
14/02/1943 | Obstlt. | 10 562: 200m | 14.15 | ||||
14/02/1943 | Obstlt. | 10 524: 300m | 14.3 | ||||
15/02/1943 | Obstlt. | 00 444: 1000m | 9.28 | ||||
17/02/1943 | Obstlt. | 10 522: 400m | 15.02 | ||||
18/02/1943 | Obstlt. | 10 382: 400m | 9.5 | ||||
07/03/1943 | Obstlt. | 18 324: 200m | 14.1 | ||||
30/05/1943 | Major | - | 9.24 | ||||
| Squadrons for : Hannes Trautloft | ||
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JG51 Country : Germany Founded : August 1939 Click the name above to see prints featuring aircraft of JG51 | JG51 Jagdgeschwader 51 Mölders was a Luftwaffe fighter wing during World War II, named after the fighter ace Werner Mölders in 1942. JG 51's pilots won more Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes than any other Jagdgeschwader, and flew combat from 1939 in all major theatres of war. Flying Bf 109s and then FW 190s, the wing claimed over 8,000 air victories. Experten included 'Toni' Hafner, Heinz Bär, Richard Leppla, Karl-Gottfried Nordmann, Günther Schack and the legendary Mölders. Formed in August 1939, and commanded by 48-year-old World War I ace Onkel Theo Osterkamp, the early months of the war JG 51 was based in the West, fighting in the French campaign, and in the Battle of Britain. From late June to mid July JG 51 was the only fighter Geschwader engaged against the RAF constantly. During the whole battle JG 51 lost 68 pilots, the highest casualty rate of the Luftwaffe fighter units engaged. JG 51 was one of the two Geschewader that had four Gruppen. The other being JG 1. Four Bf 109 of JG 51 in France 1940Whilst based out of the Belgian airfield at Mardyik in late 1940, the German ace Josef Pips Priller was a Staffelkapitän with JG 51, flying Bf 109-E Yellow One. Josef Priller went on to score over 100 victories, the third highest scoring Luftwaffe day fighter ace on the Western Front, fighting solely against the Western Allies. Against the Western Allies JG 51 had claimed 345 aircraft destroyed by May 1941. JG 51 were therefore one of the Jagdwaffe's elite units, with 'top ten' aces at this time including Werner Mölders with 68 claims, Walter Oesau with 34 claims, and Hermann-Friedrich Joppien with 31. Major Werner Mölders became unit Geschwaderkommodore during July 1940 and led the unit into the invasion of Russia in June 1941. Barbarossa (1941) Claiming 69 kills on the first day of the offensive, by 30 June 1941 JG 51 became the first fighter Geschwader to claim 1,000 air victories (113 kills in 157 sorties were claimed for the day). On 24 June JG 51 claimed 57 bombers shot down for the day. Mölders became the first fighter pilot to reach 100 claims in August and in the same month JG 51's Oberfeldwebel Heinz Bär reached 60 claims and was decorated with the Oak Leaves. A total of 500 Soviet claims was reached on 12 July 1941, although 6 pilots had been lost by JG 51 in the intervening 3 weeks since the offensive had started. After Mölders' departure in September 1941 (and death later that year) the Geschwader adopted his name as a title of honor in early 1942. Jagdgeschwader 51 Mölders was to remain on the centre sector of the Russian front throughout the rest of 1941. However Oberstleutnant Friedrich Beckh ( one of the few fighter pilots to wear spectacles) proved an uncharismatic commander after Mölders, and it was not until Major Karl-Gottfried Nordmann took over in April 1942 that a worthy successor to Mölders was found. In the period 22 June - 5 December 1941 the unit destroyed 1,881 Soviet aircraft, in return for 84 losses in aerial combat and a single aircraft on the ground. Air support for the Wehrmacht's Army Group Centre was entrusted to General Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen's VIII. Fliegerkorps. In early January 1942, among the fighter units available to von Richthofen were II, III and IV/ JG 51. With the onset of the sub-zero conditions of the Russian winter, the majority of JG 51's available aircraft became grounded. The Russian winter counter offensive forced III./ JG 51 into flying numerous fighter-bomber operations in direct support of the infantry, and the gruppe filed few aerial 'kill' claims through January 1942. II./ JG 51 however, accounted for most of VIII. Fliegerkorps's aerial victories during the Soviet offensive. Particularly successful was the duo of Lt. Hans Strelow and Ofw. Wilhelm Mink, both of 5. JG 51. They claimed five MiG-3s of 16 IAP on 4 January (Mink claimed three) and 9 days later Mink claimed a Pe-2 and Strelow destroyed two R-Z biplanes for his 30th and 31st victories. On 4 February, Strelow increased his victories to 36 by shooting down four Russian aircraft. The 19 year-old Strelow claimed his 40th victory on 28 February and claimed 4 victories on both 6 March and 17 March. The next day he was awarded the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes and also shot down seven Soviet aircraft. He was awarded the Eichenlaub on 24 March, his claims total at 66. Normandy (1944) 7./JG 51, (with Bf 109G-6's) was attached to II./JG 1 in May 1944 from Brest-Litovsk, with pilots arriving at Störmede late in May and hurriedly converting to the FW-190. (It was later renamed 8./JG 1 on 15 August 1944 when the four-Staffeln Gruppe became standard) 7. Staffel was led by Ritterkreuzträger (Knight's Cross winner) Hptm. Karl-Heinz Weber with 136 confirmed kills. Its two other experten were Lt. Friedrich Krakowitzer (23 kills) and Ofhr. Günther Heckmann with 12 kills. 7./JG 51 joined II. Gruppe with 15 pilots on strength at the end of May, and during the first two months of the Normandy campaign the staffel was decimated, with twelve pilots killed, one POW and one severely wounded. As the war turned against Germany JG 51 was forced to operate closer and closer to Germany, finally staging out of East Prussia. | |
JG54 Country : Germany Click the name above to see prints featuring aircraft of JG54 | JG54 I./JG 54 was initially formed as I./JG 70 near Nuremberg in July 1939, just two short months before hostilities broke out. As was to become tradition within Grunherzgeschwader, the Gruppe took the Nurember coat-of-arms (a veritcally divided shield with a black heraldic bird on the left, and red and white diagonal stripes on the right) to represent the region the unit came from. On September 15, 1939, I./JG 70 was redesignated I./JG 54 The initial unit designation for II./JG 54 was I./JG 138. This unit was raised in 1938 after the Austrian annexation. Naturally many Austrian nationals were recruited when I./JG 138 was formed. The Aspern coat of arms (black lion's head surmounting a white cross on a red field) was taken by the Gruppe for its identity. I./JG 138 was briefly designated I./JG 76 before finally becoming II./JG 54 on April 6, 1940. The III./JG 54 has its roots in Prussia. Initially I./JG 21, the members were drawn from the Jesau region in Prussia. The modified Jesau coat-of-arms (a shield with a Jesau cross with three diving aircraft on a red background, with a white outline on the shield) was adopted as the Gruppe's own. On July 15, 1939, I./JG 21 was redesignated III./JG 54. However, the bureaucratic nature of the young Luftwaffe was such that it was over a year before records would reflect the new designation. Consequently, III./JG 54 fought in Poland and France as I./JG 21. Kommodoren of JG 54 : Major Martin Mettig; 2 Feb 40 to 25 Aug 40. Oberst Hannes Trautloft; 25 Aug 40 to 5 Jul 43. Major Hubertus von Bonin; 6 Jul 43 to 15 Dec 43. Oberstleutnant Anton Mader; 28 Jan 44 to Sep 44. Oberst Dieter Hrabak; 1 Oct 44 to 8 May 45. | |
JG77 Country : Germany Founded : May 1939 'Ace of Hearts' Click the name above to see prints featuring aircraft of JG77 | JG77 Herz As (Ace of Hearts) was a Luftwaffe fighter wing during World War II. It served in all the German theaters of war, from Western Europe to the Eastern Front, and from the high north in Norway to the Mediterranean. JG 77 was formed in May 1939 with I. and II. Gruppe. III./JG 77 was formed on 5 July 1940 in Trondheim from the II(J)./JG 186. I./ JG 77 was reorganized on 21 November 1940 into IV./JG 51 and a new I./JG 77 was established. In January 1942 I./JG 77 was transferred to I./JG 5 and a new I./JG 77 was created. In April 1942 1. Staffel was transferred to Romania and designated the defence unit for the Ploie?ti oil fields at Mizil. (This staffel was redesignated 1./JG 4 in August 1942.) | |
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