Information wanted about DKIG Hans Bading (KG4-Wever)

[beerlover]

Hi guy's

Is there anyone who has a pictures or more information about German Cross in Gold winner O-Leutnant Hans Bading ??
He was a member of KG4 (Wever)

[Larry deZeng]

Hans BADING was promoted to Oblt. on 01.03.42. I have no record of him being promoted to Hptm. before the end of the war, but that could have occurred posthumously. He was Staffelkapitän of 11./KG 4 from 01.09.43 to 31.03.44 and 6./KG 4 from 31.03.44 to 09.08.44. During the night of 8/9 August 1944, Bading's 6. Staffel along with the rest of II. Gruppe attacked enemy armor and vehicle traffic crossing a pontoon bridge and an old wooden bridge that span the Vistula at Baranow/Poland. Bading's Heinkel 111H failed to return from the mission and is believed to have been shot down by Russian AA fire around the bridges. He and his 4 crew members were reported missing and a short time later declared dead.

[Source:
Gundelach, Karl. Kampfgeschwader “General Wever” 4: Eine Geschichte aus Kriegstagebüchern, Dokumenten und Berichten 1939-1945 (Stuttgart,: Motorbuch Verlag, 1978), pp.295, 300, 371. ]

--BHS1956

[beerlover]

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