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Gunther Radusch |
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Name : Gunther Radusch Died : 29th July 1988 Air Victories : 65.00 Awards : Knights Cross Oak Leaves to the Knights Cross |
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Date | Rank | Squadron | Claimed | Location | Time | Aircraft Flown | Notes |
22/04/1937 | Ltn. | Curtiss | - | - | |||
10/04/1941 | Hptm. | 2km SW Papenburg | 1 | ||||
27/02/1942 | Hptm. | W. Westerland | 0.55 | ||||
26/04/1942 | Hptm. | S. Scheldmündung | 2.08 | ||||
28/04/1942 | Hptm. | Romo | 1.05 | ||||
29/04/1942 | Hptm. | - | 2.18 | ||||
17/08/1942 | Major | 7663I6: 3000m [Sonderborg] | 2.42 | ||||
17/08/1942 | Major | 866701: 3000m | 2.56 | ||||
22/09/1942 | Major | 8511B5: 1800m [18km W. Blidsel] | 1.01 | ||||
02/10/1942 | Major | 8679 A4: 1700m | 1.04 | ||||
02/10/1942 | Major | 7689 C7: 800m | 1.22 | ||||
17/12/1942 | Major | 8683L G1: 1300m [SE Ribe] | 19.53 | ||||
08/01/1943 | Major | 4km W. Hemsrode: 2500m [W. Sylt] | 20 | ||||
17/01/1943 | Major | 766 9H7: 5500m [5km W. Eiderstedt] | 22.14 | ||||
21/04/1943 | Major | 7665 G1 in See: 1000m | 3.07 | ||||
21/04/1943 | Major | 7653 G2 in See: 200m | 3.32 | ||||
15/06/1943 | Major | 7km NE Meijel: 6100m [10km S. Venlo] | 1.15 | ||||
15/06/1943 | Major | 4km SE Meijel: 6800m [20km WSW Venlo] | 1.2 | ||||
17/06/1943 | Major | NE Randl-Neerpelt: 6500m | 1.45 | ||||
22/06/1943 | Major | 3km W. Tilburg-raag: 5500m [16km NNW Venlo] | 1.34 | ||||
25/06/1943 | Major | Wellen: 5900m | 0.57 | ||||
25/06/1943 | Major | Issjelmeer: 5700m [Jasmund] | 1.15 | ||||
25/06/1943 | Major | 8½km NW Venlo: 5500m | 1.29 | ||||
26/06/1943 | Major | 1km E. Waurry: 5700m [20km S. Nijmegen] | 1.58 | ||||
29/06/1943 | Major | Waalre: 7100m | 2.15 | ||||
29/06/1943 | Major | Lood bei Waalre: 6200m [7km S. Eindhoven] | 2.24 | ||||
29/06/1943 | Major | 1km E. Aarle: 4800m [5km N. Helmond] | 2.34 | ||||
29/06/1943 | Major | 2km S. Nünen: 6700m [5km NW Eindhoven] | 2.56 | ||||
28/07/1943 | Major | S. Vollerwiek: 6000m [Schl.-Holstein] | 0.26 | ||||
28/07/1943 | Major | Wöhrden: 5900m | 0.43 | ||||
30/07/1943 | Major | 1km N. Hemminger: 6000m | 0.25 | ||||
03/08/1943 | Major | UR in See: 5000m [40km ESE Helgoland] | 1.22 | ||||
03/08/1943 | Major | AE-3 in See: 5500m [20km NNW Helgoland] | 2.14 | ||||
18/08/1943 | Major | Peenemünde: 1500m | 1.46 | ||||
18/08/1943 | Major | Peenemünde: 2500m | 1.55 | ||||
18/08/1943 | Major | Peenemünde: 2000m | 2 | ||||
22/09/1943 | Major | 8511 B5: 1800m | 1.01 | ||||
27/09/1943 | Major | SW stadt Hannover: 3600m | 23.24 | ||||
09/10/1943 | Major | 20km W. Hannover: 4200m | 1.51 | ||||
22/10/1943 | Major | 5-10km WNW Kassel: 5000m | 20.57 | ||||
22/10/1943 | Major | 10km NE Kassel: 5500m | 21.04 | ||||
22/10/1943 | Major | 20km N. Kassel: 4900m | 21.13 | ||||
14/01/1944 | Oberstltn. | - | 19.29 | ||||
20/01/1944 | Oberstltn. | - | 19.39 | ||||
20/01/1944 | Oberstltn. | - | 19.3 | ||||
21/01/1944 | Oberstltn. | - | 23.15 | ||||
29/01/1944 | Oberstltn. | - | 3.12 | ||||
30/01/1944 | Oberstltn. | - | 20.27 | ||||
30/01/1944 | Oberstltn. | - | 20.24 | ||||
30/01/1944 | Oberstltn. | - | 20.3 | ||||
20/02/1944 | Major | KH-9: 7200m | 5.39 | ||||
25/02/1944 | Major | Schnee-Eifel: 6300m | 24 | ||||
26/02/1944 | Major | vor Kaiswalt: 6500m [S. Rottweil] | 0.3 | ||||
31/03/1944 | Obstlt. | PO: 6000 N. [Adenau: Hohes Venn] | 0.36 | ||||
31/03/1944 | Obstlt. | PP: 6000m [SW Koblenz] | 0.41 | ||||
22/05/1944 | Obstlt. | LK-LL-KL-KK: 6000m | 1.44 | ||||
22/05/1944 | Obstlt. | LK-LI-KI-KK: 6000m | 1.56 | ||||
22/05/1944 | Obstlt. | IK-KK-KI-II: 6200m | 2 | ||||
28/05/1944 | Obstlt. | LK 2-2: 5000m [Meerle] | 2.07 | ||||
13/06/1944 | Obstlt. | bei Amiens: 1400m | 1.48 | ||||
29/06/1944 | Oberst | 05 Ost N/TF: 3200m [Compiègne] | 0.37 | ||||
29/06/1944 | Oberst | 05 Ost N/TG: 3000m [Soissons] | 0.44 | ||||
01/07/1944 | Obstlt. | 30km NW Obj: 2200m [St. Leu dEsserent] | 1.12 | ||||
01/07/1944 | Obstlt. | 30km SW Obj: 3000m [St. Leu dEsserent] | 1.14 | ||||
08/07/1944 | Obstlt. | 05 Ost S/TB-89: 4000m | 1.05 | ||||
| Squadrons for : Gunther Radusch | ||
| A list of all squadrons known to have been served with by Gunther Radusch. A profile page is available by clicking the squadron name. | ||
| Squadron | Info | |
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. | |
NJG3 Country : Germany Click the name above to see prints featuring aircraft of NJG3 | NJG3 Nachtjagdgeschwader 3 (NJG 3) was a Luftwaffe night fighter-wing of World War II. NJG 3 was formed on 29 September 1941 in Stade from Stab./Zerstörergeschwader 26. 1./NJG3 operated in the Mediterranean area between Feb 1941 and Oct 1941 (Feb 1941 - May 1941 Sicily, Argos [X. Fliegerkorps]; May 1941 - Aug 1941 Benghazi [Fl. Fü. Afrika], Aug 1941 - Oct 1941 Derna [Fl. Fü. Afrika]). 2./NJG3 operated in the Smolensk area from Feb 1942 - Mar 1942 (Luftwaffenkommando Ost), and was stationed at Wittmundhafen Mar 1942 to Apr 1944 (1. NJ-Div., from May 1942 2. JD). 3./NJG3 was detached at Kastrup/Copenhagen, at least between Aug 1943 and Mar 1944 (2. JD). 4./NJG3 was detached at Westerland from Sep 1941 to 21 Jan 1944 (1. NJ-Div., from May 1942 2. JD). Another detachment operated from Mainz-Finthen in late 1941 (1. NJ-Div.). 7./NJG3 was detached at Lüneburg from Nov 1941 to Apr 1943, Kastrup/Copenhagen Apr 1943 to Nov 1943, and Nordholz Nov 1943 to Apr 1944. 8./NJG3 was detached at Lüneburg from Apr 1943 to Apr 1944. Other detachments were based at Ingolstadt and Wunstorf. (All under 1. NJ-Div., later 2. JD) Known aircraft that the squadron had shot down 31 December 1944: 1 Short Stirling , LJ 914 620 Sqn. Crew unknown. Near Lister (this is most likely by NJS Norwegen) 22 February 1945: 1 Short Stirling Mk IV. LK 566. 190 Sqn. Crew killed. Near Tvedestrand 25 February 1945: 1 Handley Page Halifax MK III. NA 103. 298 Sqn. Crew killed. Near Arendal 25 February 1945: 1 Short Stirling MK IV. LJ 925. 196 Sqn. 3 Bailed out, 3 killed. Near Arendal 30 March 1945: 1 Short Stirling MK IV. LK 119. 161 Sqn. Crew Killed. Near Tvedestrand 30 March 1945: 1 Short Stirling MK IV. LK 332. 299 Sqn. Crew Killed. Risör 30 March 1945: 1 Short Stirling MK IV. LJ 888. 196 Sqn. Crew Killed. Arendal | |
NJG5 Country : Germany Click the name above to see prints featuring aircraft of NJG5 | NJG5 Full profile not yet available. | |
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