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Friday, 12 June 2015
Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6 Uffz.Siegfried "Napp" Rudschinat, II./ JG 11 Aalborg Ost/Denmark 17 May 1944.
Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6 Uffz.Siegfried "Napp" Rudschinat, of II./ JG 11 Aalborg Ost/Denmark 17 May 1944. On this day Rudschinat chased and shot down the P-51 B flown by Lt Edward Philips over the southern part of neutral Sweden at low altitude for his sixth victory. Profile by Claes Sundin.
List of Rudschinat victories via Rudschinat fils - originally posted on "The Messerschmitt Fighters" FB page and reposted here for those who search via google and/or do not visit FB
#1 B-17 on 13 June, 1943.
#2 B-24D 50 km S of Christianland, 18 November, 1943
#3 B-24 on 5 January, 1944
#4 B-17 at Odensee on 20 February
#6 P-51 on 15 April, 1944, no location.
#7 P-51 at Aalborg on 17 May, 1944.
#8 P-51 at Herning-Silkeborg (Jutland) on 20 May, 1944.
#9 B-26 on the Normandy front 8 June, 1944.
#10 P-47 at Alencon on 11 July, 1944.
#11 Spitfire E of Angers on 12 July, 1944.
#12 Typhoon near Amiens on 14 July, 1944.
Frappé in his 'La Luftwaffe face au débarquement' records Rudschinat's claims over Normandy as " details unknown". His first claims were made with II. Gruppe while the Spitfire (!) and Typhoon ('details unknown') were claimed with I. Gruppe of JG 11..