Hauptmann Werner Baumbach (Gruppenkommandeur I.Gruppe / Kampfgeschwader 30 "Adler") in the day he met Adolf Hitler (Führer und Oberster Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht) at Führerhauptquartier Werwolf in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, 27 August 1942. The Luftwaffe bomber ace came to Hitler's Eastern Front HQ after he received the coveted Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern #16 ten days previously (17 August 1942). After the occasion, Hitler forbade Baumbach to fly, so he started working on new bomber designs; among others, he helped design the composite bomber system, Mistel.
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