Untouched family purchased document grouping to Leutnant Hubert Eichner serving as a Kampfflieger and Staffelführer with III./Kampfgeschwader 26. Eichner was born on 21.6.1920 in Regensburg. He was reported missed in action at the North Africa coast on 6.12.1942 on the way to Bone airport. Part of the grouping is a letter confirming that his aircraft was attacked by an enemy nightfighter. One engine has caught fire. His aircraft crashed in the sea. Hubert Eichner was posthumously awarded the Luftwaffe Honor Goblet on 22.2.1943.
The grouping contains two folders which came of the family exactly like that. The grouping was never available on the market before.
Hubert Eichner is listed as observer of Oberleutnant Erich Kröning (Honor Goblet, German Cross) who was shot down on the first day serving with K.G.100. Eichner must have been in the same aircraft. See: http://www.aufhimmelzuhause.com/id145.htm
Certificates to the Squadron Clasps in bronze, silver and gold. Never folded. Excellent condition 1.
Bronze: Issued on 20.9.1941 with ink signature of the Geschwader commander. Issued to Lt. Eichner serving with 9./K.G.26
Silver: Issued on 26.5.1942. Signed by General der Flieger Hans Geisler.
Gold: Issued on 8.7.1942. Signed by General der Flieger Hans Geisler.
Iron Cross 1st Class with original ink signature of Generalfeldmarschall Kesselring as "Der Chef der Luftflotte 2". Issued on 14.11.1941 to Lt. Eichener serving with III./K.G.26.
Not folded. Apart from patina staining in very good condition.
Several original documents on the awarding of the Honor Goblet and Lt. Eichner's fathers conversation with his unit commander on his death as well as thanking him for Honor Goblet which was posted to him.
One RAD certificate.
One more folder full of early postwar 1940s/50s documents.
Including "Lutwaffenhelfer" documents of his younger brother Konrad who had to go to war in April 1945 and ended up as a POW in Stalingra.
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