Stuka ace Georg Jauernik (left) playing cards with his fellow pilots. Jauernik (23 November 1915 - 8 February 1945) received the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes on 27 November 1942 as Stabsfeldwebel and Flugzeugführer in II.Gruppe / Sturzkampfgeschwader 77 (StG 77). The medal was awarded for his successes over the course of 500+ ground attack sorties on all fronts, which included his heavily damaging a 7000 GRT freighter in the port of Tuapse. Georg Jauernik finally reached the rank of Leutnant. He lies presumably buried as an unknown soldier at the German War Cemetery in Poznan. He flew a total of over 1000 sorties during World War II, almost all of these with the Junkers Ju 87 Stuka.
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