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    Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (16 February 1922 – 15 July 1950) was a German Luftwaffe night-fighter pilot and the highest-scoring night fighter ace in the...
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  • Schnaufer or Schnauffer is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: David Schnaufer (1952–2006), American folk musician Heinz-Wolfgang...
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    during their combat careers and the top night fighter ace, Major Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, flew it exclusively and claimed 121 victories in 164 sorties....
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  • him on a stretcher and placed him on a truck. When Hartmann's Crew Chief, Heinz Mertens, heard what had happened, he took a rifle and went to search for...
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  • He participated in 100 aerial victories as a crewman with Major Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer from October 1942 until the end of the war. Rumpelhardt was the...
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  • officers included Oberstleutnant Wolfgang Thimmig (October 1943 – November 1944) and Major Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (20 November 1944 – 8 May 1945). Major...
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    combat careers, and the top night fighter ace of all time, Major Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, flew it exclusively and claimed 121 victories in 164 combat missions...
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    Jena, DE: Scherzers Militaer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2. Schmidt, Wolfgang (2011). Hammerich, Helmut R.; Schlaffer, Rudolf J. (eds.). Militärische...
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    night-fighter pilots to be awarded the decoration. The second was Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, who, with 121 aerial victories, became aviation history's leading...
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    Wolf-Udo Ettel (124) Herbert Ihlefeld (123) Wolfgang Tonne (122) Heinz Marquardt (121) Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (121) Robert Weiß (121) Friedrich Obleser...
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  • of the Luftwaffe pilots based at Koksijde who was involved was Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, who eventually became the highest-scoring night fighter ace in...
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    (1855–1939), psychiatrist Rudolf Schlichter (1890–1955), painter Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (1922–1950), Luftwaffe night fighter pilot of World War II Ulrich...
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    USAAF (of a total of 78). The most successful night-fighter pilot, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, is credited with 121 kills. 103 German fighter pilots shot down...
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    Hans-Joachim Marseille (158 kills) and Heinz Bär (208 kills, of which 124 in the west). Notable are also Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, with 121 kills the highest-scoring...
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  • Wolfgang Tonne †  Germany Luftwaffe 122 Killed in flying accident on 20 April 1943. Heinz Marquardt  Germany Luftwaffe 121 Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer  Germany...
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  • and the Mittelland Canal, 26 of which were credited to Rökker, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, Günther Bahr and Johannes Hager. On the night of the 3/4 March...
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  • German-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1981) 1922 – Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, German soldier and pilot (d. 1950) 1923 – Samuel Willenberg, Polish-Israeli...
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    R. Stephen Ritchie Shahram Rostami Indra Lal Roy Saburo Sakai Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon Alexandru Șerbănescu Yadollah Sharifirad...
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    This was offset by the loss of II. Gruppe's 173-victory ace Oberleutnant Heinz Schmidt. The two Lavochkin La-5s shot down by Barkhorn were his 165th and...
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    September 1944 Awarded the Swords simultaneously with the Diamonds. 21 Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer Luftwaffe 14-LHauptmann Gruppenkommandeur of the IV./Nachtjagdgeschwader...
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    of 11./NJG 1, where he would become friends with Helmut Lent, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, Günther Radusch and Martin Drewes. By the end of the year he had...
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    Statistical Analysis. Oxon: Frank Cass. ISBN 978-0-9721060-4-7. Frieser, Karl-Heinz; Schmider, Klaus; Schönherr, Klaus; Schreiber, Gerhard; Ungváry, Kristián;...
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    and on 31 August 1944, he claimed a further thirteen shot down. Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer: although claiming only nine aircraft shot down, he destroyed ten...
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    (squadron leader) of 1. Staffel of JG 54 on 25 October, replacing Oberleutnant Heinz Lange who was transferred. In January 1943, JG 54 started converting to...
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  • friend Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer were arrested illegally crossing the German-Swiss border attempting an escape to Argentina. Both Greiner and Schnaufer were...
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    1944 Heinz Wernicke 14 September 1944 Peter Düttmann 24 September 1944 15 April 1945 Gerhard Thyben 30 September 1944 23 February 1945 Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer...
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    here in 1944. The highest scoring German night fighter pilot, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (121 air victories, most of them at night) was referred to as "The...
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  • was looking for JV 44 pilots and Krupinski, Barkhorn, Erich Hohagen, Karl-Heinz Schnell, and Waldemar Wübke stepped up. The men were then taken to Heidelberg...
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    Heinrich Bär (redirect from Heinz Bär)
    Wolf-Udo Ettel (124) Herbert Ihlefeld (123) Wolfgang Tonne (122) Heinz Marquardt (121) Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (121) Robert Weiß (121) Friedrich Obleser...
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    Wolf-Udo Ettel (124) Herbert Ihlefeld (123) Wolfgang Tonne (122) Heinz Marquardt (121) Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (121) Robert Weiß (121) Friedrich Obleser...
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