Luftwaffe Otto Hannes Decker

[servusalle]

I got today 3 Shoe-Cartoons ful Documents letters , 400 Fotos of the Pilot

but I cant find anything under Google anybody has some Info
please ???

Interesting the marine badge on his arm !

[Gerdan]

There was an Ltn. Otto Decker with JG52. May be this is your guy?

Gerdan

[deradler1]

Luftwaffe Lt Otto Decker awarded DKiG on 16/11/42.

[deradler1]

On closer inspection the man on the left is wearing an Army uniform with a Kriegsmarine arm patch and the man in the photo on the right and below is in the Luftwaffe. In the photo on the bottom, is he wearing a pilot's badge?

[Simon O.]

It's not a KM arm patch but an army coxwain's arm patch.
can you read the number on the shoulderstrap? Looks like a 45 or 46, we might be able to name this guy.


It can't be the JG52 Otto Decker and by the bottom photo i seems to be a fliegerschützen abzeichen he's wearing?

[Rob Romero]

Why can't it -definitively- be the Otto Decker of JG52?

TIA

Rob Romero

[Simon O.]

Why can't it -definitively- be the Otto Decker of JG52?

TIA

Rob Romero

Because he's either a bordschütze, bordmechaniker or bordfunker. He's also only a feldwebel and is sitting in a multi-engined aircraft as would be befitting one of the above trades.
The JG52 Decker was a pilot who received the ehrenpokal in sept. 42 posthumously as an oberleutnant. He scored 40 victories before his death in Aug.42, a couple of which were gained in 1940 during the battles of France and Britain when a leutnant.