Date of birth:

May 19th, 1921 (Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen/Württemberg, Germany)

Date of death:

September 12th, 1944 (near Sagan/Silesia, Germany)

Buried on:

German War Graves Posen / Poznań
Grave: unk.

Nationality:

German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Helmut Missner probably lies buried in an unknown grave at the German War cemetery in Poznan, Poland.

W.B.K. Esslingen
07.11.1938: entered the Luftwaffe
01.06.1941: promoted to Feldwebel
00.07.1942: transferred to I./ JG 54
15.09.1942: Uffz., 2./ JG 54
14.02.1943: Uffz., 2./ JG 54
23.03.1943: Uffz., 2./ JG 54
18.06.1943: Fw., 2./ JG 54
28.07.1943: Fw., 2./ JG 54
13.09.1943: Fw., awarded the Ehrenpokal
17.10.1943: Fw., awarded DKiG, I./ JG 54
12.02.1944: Fw., 3./ JG 54
09.03.1944: Fw., 3./ JG 54
04.04.1944: promoted to Oberfeldwebel
13.05.1944: Ofw., 3./ JG54
06.07.1944: Ofw., 3./ JG 54
15.07.1944: transferred to Erg.JGr. Ost as an instructor
12.09.1944: Ofw., KIA - Fw 190 A-8 plunged from high altitude and crashed near Sagan/Schlesien, probably due to oxygen deprivation
10.10.1944: Ofw., posthumously awarded Ritterkreuz, I./ JG 54
Before his death, recommended for promotion to Leutnant
Credited with 82 air victories

Do you have more information about this person? Inform us!

• - FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
  - OBERMAIER, E., Die Ritterkreuzträger der Luftwaffe, Hoffmann, 1989.
  - PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
  - Newspaperarticle Ritterkreuz.
  - Kurowski F., Oberleutnant Otto Kittel, Der erfolgreichste Jagdflieger des Jagdgeschwaders 54, Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg, 2007
  

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