Here's a nice little find of mine that' i'm quite chuffed with. I think our Finnish friends will like it too. The only down side is that it should have friends with it! 
The sales description was pretty short and gave no clues away. I noticed it at first because i could see the unit was based in Northern Finland so falling within my area of interest. So i went through the usual checks, The volksbund database threw up an Oberleutnant Richard Hamann, KIA 5.7.44 and buried at Helsinki. Sounded like a definite maybe. Next i went to Scherzer's book on LW DKiG winners and there was an Oberleutnant Richard Hamann of a Schlachtgeschwader listed with an award date of 1.1.45. A posthumous award it would seem. Then the last piece fell into place when i found an Oberleutnant Richard Hamann leading 1./SG5 in 1944 until his death as part of the famous Gefechtsverband Kuhlmey.
A look at the unit histories also confirms the link between 4./StG5 and the later I./SG5.
The sig is that of Ernst-August Roth, RK.
So, a nice doc to a Stuka pilot, later Fw190 schlacht pilot of a famous unit (well famous to the Finns at any rate) and ultimately a DKiG winner.
The only thing that remains for me is to track down the circumstances of his death...and the rest of his docs of course.
and to think, i was the only one to bid on it
The sales description was pretty short and gave no clues away. I noticed it at first because i could see the unit was based in Northern Finland so falling within my area of interest. So i went through the usual checks, The volksbund database threw up an Oberleutnant Richard Hamann, KIA 5.7.44 and buried at Helsinki. Sounded like a definite maybe. Next i went to Scherzer's book on LW DKiG winners and there was an Oberleutnant Richard Hamann of a Schlachtgeschwader listed with an award date of 1.1.45. A posthumous award it would seem. Then the last piece fell into place when i found an Oberleutnant Richard Hamann leading 1./SG5 in 1944 until his death as part of the famous Gefechtsverband Kuhlmey.
A look at the unit histories also confirms the link between 4./StG5 and the later I./SG5.
The sig is that of Ernst-August Roth, RK.
So, a nice doc to a Stuka pilot, later Fw190 schlacht pilot of a famous unit (well famous to the Finns at any rate) and ultimately a DKiG winner.
The only thing that remains for me is to track down the circumstances of his death...and the rest of his docs of course.
and to think, i was the only one to bid on it
Comment