Heinz Harmel and Luftwaffe Ritterkreuzträger

SS-Oberführer Heinz Harmel (right, Kommandeur 10. SS-Panzer-Division "Frundsberg") and Oberstleutnant Helmut Bruck (Geschwaderkommodore Schlachtgeschwader 77). The picture was taken in Galicia, spring 1944.



SS-Oberführer Heinz Harmel (left, Kommandeur 10. SS-Panzer-Division "Frundsberg") and Hauptmann Alexander Gläser (Gruppenkommandeur II.Gruppe / Schlachtgeschwader 77). The picture was taken in Galicia, spring 1944.

From left to right: Oberstleutnant Helmut Bruck (Geschwaderkommodore Schlachtgeschwader 77), SS-Oberführer Heinz Harmel (Kommandeur 10. SS-Panzer-Division "Frundsberg"), and Hauptmann Alexander Gläser (Gruppenkommandeur II.Gruppe / Schlachtgeschwader 77). The picture was taken in Galicia, spring 1944.

Source :
"Die 10. SS-Panzer-Division Frundsberg" by Rolf Michaelis
https://www.alexautographs.com/auction-lot/heinz-harmel_7AB422B8A7
https://www.ca-collecting.com/shop/en/autographs-1933-1945-ss-police/harmel-alexander-glaeser-90392.html
https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/ss-uniforms-insignia/heinz-harmel-uniform-regulations-4384/

Hans Seidemann and Helmut Bruck

Luftwaffe award ceremony. Saluting is Generalleutnant Hans Seidemann (Kommandierender General VIII. Fliegerkorps), while the Eichenlaubträger at left is Oberstleutnant Helmut Bruck (Geschwaderkommodore Schlachtgeschwader 77). The picture was possibly taken in early 1944.

Source :
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=2332817#p2332817

Helmuth Bode with German and Foreign Officers

Ritterkreuzträger Hauptmann Helmuth Bode (center) with German and foreign officers at Crimea, 1942. Bode received the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes on 10 October 1941 as Hauptmann and Kommandeur III.Gruppe / Sturzkampfgeschwader 77 (StG 77).

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Georg Jauernik Playing Cards

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.

Source :

https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=2296241#p2296241

https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/23541/Jauernik-Georg.htm

Hauptmann Heinz Niehuus

Heinz Niehuus (26 April 1913 - 29 June 1989) received the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes on 17 April 1945 as Hauptmann and Gruppenkommandeur I.Gruppe / Schlachtgeschwader 77 (SG 77). The medal was awarded after flying over 500 ground attack sorties. By the end of the war this total had risen to 541 altogether.

Source :
Adolfo Diaz photo collection
https://www.collectors.com/autograph/signed-photo-letter-of-knights-cross-stuka-ace-heinz-niehuu/-1926311622868605149
https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/25294/Niehuus-Heinz.htm