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Wk Nr Unk.

A/C ID N/A

Pilot Genlt Adolf Galland+

Date Apr. 26, 1945

Unit JV-44

Cause Shot down

Wk Nr Unk.

A/C ID N/A

Pilot Maj. Georg-Peter Eder

Date Apr. 26, 1945

Unit JG-7

Cause Shot down by Soviets

Wk Nr Unk.

A/C ID N/A

Pilot Unk.#

Date Apr. 27, 1945

Unit JG-7

Cause Shot down by Soviets

Wk Nr Unk.

A/C ID N/A

Pilot Unk.#

Date Apr. 27, 1945

Unit JG-7

Cause Shot down

Wk Nr Unk.

A/C ID N/A

Pilot Lt Ernst-Rudolf Geldmacher*

Date Apr. 28, 1945

Unit III./KG-54

Cause Fire takeoff

Wk Nr Unk.

A/C ID B3+Red 1

Pilot Hptm Kornagel*

Date Apr. 29, 1945

Unit III./KG-54

Cause Missing

Wk Nr Unk.

A/C ID B3+Red 3

Pilot Unk.#

Date Apr. 29, 1945

Unit III./KG-54

Cause Shot down

Wk Nr Unk.

A/C ID B3+Red 2

Pilot Hptm Spadiut#

Date Apr. 29, 1945

Unit III./KG-54

Cause Shot down

Wk Nr Unk. B3+Red 2

A/C ID

Pilot Lt Paukner#

Date Apr. 29, 1945

Unit 1/JG-7

Cause Missing

Wk Nr Unk.

A/C ID N/A

Pilot Lt Fritz Kelb#

Date Apr. 30, 1945

Unit I./KG-54

Cause Soviet flak

Wk Nr Unk.

A/C ID N/A

Pilot Unk.#

Date Apr. 30, 1945

Unit KG-51

Cause Shot down

Wk Nr Unk.

A/C ID N/A

Pilot Lt Schimmel*

Date May 6, 1945

Unit KG-51

Cause Shot down

Wk Nr Unk.

A/C ID N/A

Pilot Lt Strothman*

Date May 7, 1945

Unit KG-51

Cause Shot down

Wk Nr Unk.

A/C ID N/A

Pilot Lt Poling*

Date May 7, 1945

Unit 1/JG-7

Cause Surrendered

Wk Nr 500210

A/C ID Yellow 17

Pilot Lt Hans Dorn

Date May 8, 1945

Unit 1/JG-7

Cause Surrendered

Wk Nr 112372

A/C ID Yellow 7

Pilot Uffz Günther Engle

Date May 8, 1945

Unit 1/JG-7

Cause Surrendered

Wk Nr 111690

A/C ID White 5

Pilot Lt Friedrich-Wilhelm Schülter

Date May 8, 1945

Unit 1/JG-7

Cause Surrendered

Wk Nr 5000443

A/C ID Yellow 5

Pilot Uffz Anton Schöppler

Date May 8, 1945

Unit I./KG-54

Cause Surrendered

Wk Nr Unk.

A/C ID N/A

Pilot None

Date May 8, 1945

Unit I./KG-51

Cause Surrendered

Wk Nr Unk.

A/C ID N/A

Pilot Hptm Rudolf Abrahamczik

Date May 8, 1945

Unit I./KG-51

Cause Surrendered

Wk Nr Unk.

A/C ID N/A

Pilot Lt Anton Haeffner

Date May 8, 1945

Unit I./KG-51

Cause Surrendered

Wk Nr 500200

A/C ID X

Pilot Lt Fröhlich

Date May 8, 1945

Unit I./KG-51

Cause Crash landed

Wk Nr Unk.

A/C ID N/A

Pilot Lt Wilhelm Batel

Date May 8, 1945

Unit I./KG-54

Cause Surrendered

Wk Nr Unk.

A/C ID N/A

Pilot Unk.

Date May 8, 1945

JG-7 PERMANENT PERSONNEL

Geschwaderkommodore

Oberstleutnant Johannes Steinhoff, 4 December 1944

Major Theodor Weissenberger, 1 January 1945

Major Rudolf Sinner (acting), 19 February 1945

Gruppenkommandeure

I./JG 7

Hauptmann Gerhard Baeker, August 1944

Major Theodor Weissenberger, 25 November 1944

Major Erich Rudorffer, 14 January 1945

Oberleutnant Fritz Stehle (acting), April 1945

Major Wolfgang Späte, April 1945

II./JG 7

Major Hermann Staiger, 12 January 1945

Hauptmann Burkhard, February 1945

Major Hans Klemm, 15 April 1945 - 8 May 1945

III./JG 7

Major Erich Hohagen, 19 November 1944

Major Rudolf Sinner, 1 January 1945

Hauptmann Johannes Naumann, 5 April 1945

IV./JG 7

Oberstleutnant Heinrich Bär, 3 May 1945

Pilots Attached to JG 7

Major Heinrich Ehrler

Leutnant Karl Schnörrer

Oberleutnant Walter Schuck

Oberstleutnant Johannes Steinhoff

Oberleutnant Hans Waldmann

Major Theodor Weissenberger

Leutnant Rudolf “Rolf” Glogner (Me 163 B Komet pilot with JG-300)

PHOTOGRAPHS

Oberst Johannes Steinhoff flew with JG-26, JG-52, JG-77, JG-7, and JV-44 and scored 176 victories, 5 in the Me 262 with JG-7 and JV-44. He received the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords after a stellar career on every front. He retired as a generalleutnant and NATO commander and became a prolific author on World War II. Johannes Steinhoff
Major Gerhard Barkhorn scored 301 kills with 2 possibly in the Me 262. He flew with JG-52, JG-6, and JV-44 until a landing accident nearly broke his neck. He was awarded the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords, but the war ended before he could be approved for the Diamonds. Ray Toliver
Major Walter Nowotny, JG-54, JG-101, was the appointed leader of Kommando Nowotny (later JG-7). “Nowi” received the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds, scored 258 victories, with the last 3 scored in the Me 262 the day he was killed in close combat by Edward R. “Buddy” Haydon while trying to land at Achmer. Galland, Eder, and others, witnessed the event. Ray Toliver
Major Erich Rudorffer scored 222 victories, 12 in the Me 262, while flying with JG-4, JG-54, and JG-7. He also had a British submarine kill. Rudorffer was shot down over a dozen times, making nine parachute jumps. Ray Toliver