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Aufklärungsgr. 122 grouping (Southern Front) - Luftwaffe Honor Roll Clasp winner

Aufklärungsgr. 122 grouping (Southern Front) - Luftwaffe Honor Roll Clasp winner

LOT 54-0277
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Auction ended        25th September 2021  |  05:04 pm CEST
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PERIOD 1918 — 1945
COUNTRY Germany 1918 - 1945
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LOT 54-0277
EAN 2000000590622
LOT 54-0277
PERIOD 1918 — 1945
COUNTRY Germany 1918 - 1945
EAN 2000000590622
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PERIOD 1918 — 1945
COUNTRY Germany 1918 - 1945
LOT 54-0277
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EAN 2000000590622
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Germany 1918 - 1945


Description

Luftwaffe grouping to Hauptmann Karl-Heinz Dietze serving with 2./(F) Aufklärungsgruppe 122. Based in Italy from the end of 1941 and deployed to North Africa, the Mediterranean, and Southern Italy.

Luftwaffe Wehrpass issued on 13. May 1945 ("Zweitschrift"). Original photo in place. Noted awards: Luftwaffe Pilot's Badge, Combined Luftwaffe Pilot's and Observer's Badge, 1939 War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords, 1939 Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class, Squadron Clasp for Aufklärer in Bronze and Luftwaffe Honor Roll Clasp on 11.12.1944. Campaign list from 1.9.1939 to 2.5.1945. Deployed on the southern front. Also, 43 registered "Feindflüge" enemy flights. Noted on pages 32 and 33. 

Twelve period time Luftwaffe photos showing Dietze together with his comrades celebrating the unit's 3000th enemy flight. They are also wearing tropical tunics.

Four postwar German Democratic Republic documents and one Third Reich proof of ancestry.

 

 


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