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Werner Mölders and his men 1941 – illustrated
Mölders und seine Männer
“Werner Mölders (18 March 1913 – 22 November 1941)
was a World War
II German Luftwaffepilot and the leading German fighter ace in the Spanish Civil War. Mölders became the first pilot in aviation history to claim 100 aerial victories—that
is, 100 aerial combat encounters resulting in the destruction of the enemy
aircraft, and was highly decorated for his achievements. He was instrumental in
the development of new fighter tactics which led to the finger-four formation. He died in an air crash in
which he was a passenger.
Mölders joined the Luftwaffe
in 1934 at age 21. In 1938, he volunteered for service in the Condor Legion, which supported General Francisco Franco's Nationalist side in the Spanish
Civil War, and shot down 15 aircraft.[1] In World War II, he lost two
wingmen in the Battle
of France and the Battle of Britain, but shot down 53 enemy aircraft.
With his tally standing at 68 victories, Mölders and his unit, the Jagdgeschwader 51 (JG 51), were transferred to the Eastern Front
in June 1941 for the opening of Operation
Barbarossa. By
the end of 22 June 1941, the first day of Barbarossa, he had added
another four victories to his tally and a week later, Mölders surpassed Manfred
von Richthofen's
1918 record of 80 victories. By mid-July, he had 100.
Prevented from flying
further combat missions for propaganda reasons, at the age of 28 Mölders was
promoted to Oberst, and appointed Inspector
General of Fighters.
He was inspecting the Luftwaffe units in the Crimea when he was ordered to Berlin to attend the
state funeral of Ernst Udet, the World War I flying ace. On the flight to
Berlin, the Heinkel
He 111 in which he
was travelling as a passenger encountered a heavy thunderstorm during which one
of the aircraft's engines failed. While attempting to land, the Heinkel crashed
at Breslau, killing Mölders and two others. The German Wehrmacht of the Third Reich and the Bundeswehr of the Federal Republic of Germany both honoured him by naming two fighter wings, a destroyer and barracks
after him.†Source wikipedia
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