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Name : Gerhard Friedrich Air Victories : 30.00 Awards : Knights Cross |
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Date | Rank | Squadron | Claimed | Location | Time | Aircraft Flown | Notes |
17/06/1942 | Oblt. | 5km W. Ijmuiden | 3.08 | ||||
20/06/1942 | Oblt. | 10km N. Zandvoort | 3.13 | ||||
26/07/1942 | Oblt. | 6km W. Zieuwent | 2.12 | ||||
24/10/1942 | Oblt. | Bar-le-Duc: 4500-5000m | 21.5 | ||||
06/12/1942 | Oblt. | Courouvre: 3000-2500m [Meuse] | 19.29 | ||||
09/03/1943 | Oblt. | NW Rinuthall: 4500m | 23.15 | ||||
17/03/1943 | Oblt. | Börnloß: 3400m | 0.16 | ||||
11/04/1943 | Oblt. | Luinbach-Weuir: 3900m | 3.23 | ||||
06/09/1943 | Hptm. | Raum Mannheim-Sandhofen: 3500m | 0.57 | ||||
26/02/1944 | Hptm. | 400m Seeburg NW Murrhardt: 6700m | 1.33 | ||||
02/03/1944 | Hptm. | 60km S. Saarbrücken: 6000m | 4.04 | ||||
18/03/1944 | Hptm. | NW Kaiserslautern: 5800m [Preist] | 22.32 | ||||
31/03/1944 | Uffz. | 88 413: 100m | 8.13 | ||||
31/03/1944 | Hptm. | NW Nürnberg: 5600m | 0.57 | ||||
07/04/1944 | Uffz. | 88 353: 200m | 9.46 | ||||
11/04/1944 | Hptm. | Montdidier: 4000m | 0.03 | ||||
11/04/1944 | Hptm. | bei Montidier: 3200m | 0.13 | ||||
28/04/1944 | Hptm. | W. Friedrichshafen: 6300m | 2.09 | ||||
28/04/1944 | Hptm. | Schaffenhausen: 6100m | 2.34 | ||||
13/06/1944 | Hptm. | 10-30° Course Deelen: 4100m | 1.25 | ||||
12/09/1944 | Hptm. | S. Darmstadt: ausflug 5300m | 0.15 | ||||
12/09/1944 | Hptm. | 040 ° Fu.F 'Christa': 4800m | 22.46 | ||||
28/01/1945 | Hptm. | S. Wildbad | 23.53 | ||||
01/02/1945 | Hptm. | Ludwigshafen | 19.2 | ||||
02/02/1945 | Hptm. | Karlsruhe | 23.25 | ||||
02/02/1945 | Hptm. | Karlsruhe | 23.2 | ||||
21/02/1945 | Hptm. | 10km SW Worms | 20.45 | ||||
23/02/1945 | Hptm. | SE Pforzheim | 20.12 | ||||
23/02/1945 | Hptm. | S. Pforzheim | 20.15 | ||||
23/02/1945 | Hptm. | E. Pforzheim | 20 | ||||
23/02/1945 | Hptm. | E. Pforzheim | 20.08 | ||||
14/03/1945 | Hptm. | - | 23.15 | ||||
14/03/1945 | Hptm. | - | 23.18 | ||||
14/03/1945 | Hptm. | - | 23.24 | ||||
16/03/1945 | Hptm. | 7km S. Echterdingen | 21.03 | ||||
| Squadrons for : Gerhard Friedrich | ||
| A list of all squadrons known to have been served with by Gerhard Friedrich. A profile page is available by clicking the squadron name. | ||
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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. | |
NJG1 Country : Germany Click the name above to see prints featuring aircraft of NJG1 | NJG1 Full profile not yet available. | |
NJG2 Country : Germany Click the name above to see prints featuring aircraft of NJG2 | NJG2 I./NJG 2's initial role was unlike the other units of the Luftwaffe night fighter arm; as a Fernnachtjagd Gruppe they were tasked with long-range intruder missions over the UK, disrupting night flying training and harassing the returning Royal Air Force (RAF) bombers over their own airfields. Luftflotte 3's radio intercepts of Bomber Command's transmissions helped pinpoint the operational airfields in Eastern England. I./NJG 2 aircraft could then scramble to be over the airfields at the predicted times of the bomber's return. The technique employed was to mix with the returning bombers, orbit the bases, and either shoot down targets that presented themselves or drop 50 kilograms (110 lb) bombs across the runways Based at Gilze-Rijen in the Netherlands, operations commenced using just 7 JU 88 C-1 night fighters. Although most missions were carried out using the Junkers Ju 88C-1 and C-2, a few Dornier Do 215B-5 fighter conversions were trialled in the spring of 1941. The offensive over the UK yielded promising results- some 143 victory claims were made, and over 90 RAF aircraft were indeed lost between October 1940 and the start of 1942. There was also the additional disruption to RAF operations and the psychological effects on the RAF crews By October 1941 however night intruder sorties were curtailed, due to the inadequate number of aircraft available (I Gruppe never had more than 20 JU 88s operational) and the High Command's perceived lack of results; it was thought shooting down RAF bombers over the German homeland had a far greater morale effect than over the UK Among the most successful of the unit's pilots was Ufz. Heinz Strüning, who flew 66 intruder missions over England. He recorded his first night victory on 23/24 November - a RAF Vickers Wellington bomber and by the end of 1941 he had 9 victories. Leutnant Alfons Koster had, by October 1941, some 11 intruder victories. Lt. Hans Hahn was credited with 12 victories, all over England.[2] He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross In July 1941, but was killed in action in October 1941, colliding with an RAF Airspeed Oxford trainer he was trying to shoot down. II./NJG 2 flew more conventional operations at this time, based at Leeuwarden on the Dutch coast. In November 1941 4./NJG 2 moved to Catania, and would remain there until February 1942, when it transferred back to Leeuwarden and joined the rest of II./NJG 2. In November 1941 2./NJG 2 moved to Benghazi as part of Fliegerführer Afrika, and returned to Catania later in the month. The first 'kill' was claimed on 13 December, Obfw Sommer downing a Bristol Beaufighter over Crete. On 19 November 1941 the unit escorted Ju 88 bombers raiding shipping off Malta, Lt. Laufs shooting down a Hurricane of No. 126 Squadron. Early in 1942 both 2. and 3./NJG 2 was based at Benghazi until March 1942. Various demands for night cover meant from April onwards I./NJG 2 was scattered over the Mediterranean, with detachments based at Benina, Berca, Derna, Benghazi, El Quasaba and Crete. On 1 October, 7./NJG 2 was redesignated as 4./NJG 2. The unit's Leutnant Heinz Strüning was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 29 October for 24 victories. One of this unit's Ju 88G-1 night fighters, from the 7th Staffel, with Geschwaderkennung style aircraft code 4R+UR, was landed at RAF Woodbridge by mistake on July 13, 1944, giving the Allies their first chance to examine a working example of the VHF-band Lichtenstein SN-2 airborne intercept radar, and Flensburg radar detector gear. This event resulted in a longer-wavelength deployment of Window to jam the SN-2 gear, and general removal of the Monica tail warning radar from all RAF Bomber Command heavy bombers By the end of the year NJG 2 were covering the night defence of the industrial Ruhr area, flying from Düsseldorf, Kassel, Gütersloh, and Köln. In the final weeks of the conflict, the unit began receiving the night fighter variant of the Junkers Ju 388 - thus making NJG 2 the first and only Luftwaffe detachment to use the nachtjager variant operationally. It is likely these machines were 388J-0 pre-production prototypes, as the 388 programme was cancelled before manufacture of the J-1 production series had begun. Given the haphazard and incomplete conditions of training in those final days of war, and the almost total depletion of aviation fuel stocks throughout what remained of the Reich, it is doubtful whether more than a handful of combat missions were flown by this new type. NJG 2 claimed approximately 800 air victories during its period of operations. | |
NJG4 Country : Germany Click the name above to see prints featuring aircraft of NJG4 | NJG4 Full profile not yet available. | |
NJG6 Country : Germany Click the name above to see prints featuring aircraft of NJG6 | NJG6 Full profile not yet available. | |
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