Messer, Wilhelm
- Date of birth:
- April 19th, 1917 (Pfungstadt/Hesse, Germany)
- Date of death:
- April 5th, 2008 (Pfungstadt/Hesse, Germany)
- Nationality:
- German
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Deutsches Kreuz in Gold
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Feldwebel (Sergeant)
- Unit:
- 15. Staffel, IV. Gruppe, Kampfgeschwader zur besonderen Verwendung 1, Luftwaffe
- Awarded on:
- January 28th, 1943
Sources give the date of January 16th, 1943 as the awarding date. A newspaper article and his Wehrpass however give the date of January 28th, 1943 as the awarding date.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Leutnant (Pilot Officer)
- Unit:
- Flugzeugführer, II. Gruppe, Transportgeschwader 2, Luftwaffe
- Awarded on:
- March 12th, 1945
Awarded in recognition of his record as a transport pilot, a role in which he served throughout the war from the very beginning. By the time of his reception of the Knight’s Cross he had completed a total of over 600 front flights.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- April 20th, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Sources
- Photo 1: Known to STIWOT
- - FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
- MöBIUS, INGO & HUß, JüRGEN, Stille Adler, Eigenverlag Ingo Möbius, Chemnitz, 2019.
- PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Band I, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2007.
- PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
- Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Newspaper article DKiG awarding
- Wehrpass
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