Hello,
Well to show my respect towards the soldiers who where involved into the first Glider airborne mission on 10.05.1940 im starting this thread .
Many has been written about the actual missions ( certainly about Eben Emael )that took place on that day not to mention the brave Para's, etc ... but how about the glider pilots that where involved in those missions ?, are they known ? did they survive the war ?, etc .... those are questions that run often trough my brain when reading about these daring mission ( as each Glider pilto was also highly trained, suffered during this mission, was victorious, etc ... ) .
Well here are the names of the Glider pilots who where involved in thos 10.05.1940 days and hopefully someone off you guys can show us some docs. related towards one of this guys ?
Fortress Eben Emael
Brautigam ( died 1943 in a plane crash )
Bredenbeck ( KIA 1944 )
Distelmeier
Kraft ( KIA 1944 , Russia )
Lange
Pilz
Raschke
Scheidhauer
Schulz
Supper
Ziller ( KIA 1945 )
Bridge Veldwezelt
Bosebeck
Egner
Flucke
Fulda
Opitz
Schubert
Stuhr
Staubach
Wienberg
Winkler
Bridge Vroenhoven
Daum ( KIA ? )
Foltmer
Gerken
Hempel ( KIA 1943 in Istres )
Jodicke
Kiess Dr.
Krusewitz
Lehmann
Pfitzner
Smyczek
Stern
Bridge Canne
Frey
Hartebrodt ( KIA 1945 )
Noske
Over
Rieger
Seele ( KIA during action )
Specht
Schedalke
Schikowsky
Scwheigmann
Most of the above mentioned Glider pilots are passed away since and as far as my knowledge go there are about 3 still alive on this day .
Hoping to be off some help ( altough these guys where not para's as such they where togheter in action and at that time + they received the same awards + promotions for this action )
Cordial Greetings,
Well to show my respect towards the soldiers who where involved into the first Glider airborne mission on 10.05.1940 im starting this thread .
Many has been written about the actual missions ( certainly about Eben Emael )that took place on that day not to mention the brave Para's, etc ... but how about the glider pilots that where involved in those missions ?, are they known ? did they survive the war ?, etc .... those are questions that run often trough my brain when reading about these daring mission ( as each Glider pilto was also highly trained, suffered during this mission, was victorious, etc ... ) .
Well here are the names of the Glider pilots who where involved in thos 10.05.1940 days and hopefully someone off you guys can show us some docs. related towards one of this guys ?
Fortress Eben Emael
Brautigam ( died 1943 in a plane crash )
Bredenbeck ( KIA 1944 )
Distelmeier
Kraft ( KIA 1944 , Russia )
Lange
Pilz
Raschke
Scheidhauer
Schulz
Supper
Ziller ( KIA 1945 )
Bridge Veldwezelt
Bosebeck
Egner
Flucke
Fulda
Opitz
Schubert
Stuhr
Staubach
Wienberg
Winkler
Bridge Vroenhoven
Daum ( KIA ? )
Foltmer
Gerken
Hempel ( KIA 1943 in Istres )
Jodicke
Kiess Dr.
Krusewitz
Lehmann
Pfitzner
Smyczek
Stern
Bridge Canne
Frey
Hartebrodt ( KIA 1945 )
Noske
Over
Rieger
Seele ( KIA during action )
Specht
Schedalke
Schikowsky
Scwheigmann
Most of the above mentioned Glider pilots are passed away since and as far as my knowledge go there are about 3 still alive on this day .
Hoping to be off some help ( altough these guys where not para's as such they where togheter in action and at that time + they received the same awards + promotions for this action )
Cordial Greetings,
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