Five Ritterkreuzträger of 6./JG 5

 

Five Luftwaffe ace pilots from 6.Staffel / II.Gruppe / Jagdgeschwader 5 (JG 5) "Eismeer" standing in front of the fuselage of a Messerschmitt Bf 109. From left to right: Feldwebel Hans Döbrich (24 March 1916 – 6 April 1984. Ritterkreuz on 19 September 1943. Final score: 65 air victories), Leutnant der Reserve Theodor Weissenberger (21 December 1914 – 11 June 1950. Ritterkreuz on 13 November 1942 and Eichenlaub on 2 August 1943. Final score: 208 air victories), Staffelkapitän Oberleutnant Heinrich Ehrler (14 September 1917 – 4 April 1945. Ritterkreuz on 4 September 1942 and Eichenlaub on 2 August 1943. Final score: 208 air victories), Feldwebel Rudolf "Rudi" Müller (21 November 1920 – 21 October 1943. Ritterkreuz on 19 June 1942. Final score: 94 air victories), and Oberfeldwebel Albert Brunner (17 July 1918 – 7 May 1943. Ritterkreuz posthumously on 3 July 1943. Final score: 53 air victories). The picture was taken by Kriegsberichter Hirschfelder in the Scandinavian theatre of war, early 1943.

Source :
https://reibert.info/threads/genrix-ehrler-heinrich-ehrler.576442/
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Rudolf_M%C3%BCller_(pilot)