Stamp, Gerhard 'Gerd' (LG 1)

Date of birth:: June 3rd, 1920 (Bamberg, Germany)
Date of death:: May 21st, 1998 (Nassau (Lahn), Germany)
Nationality:: German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Biography

Flew a total of over 300 sorties as a bomber pilot and a further 100 or so as a fighter pilot. During this latter part of his career he shot down at least two enemy aircraft.

00.04.1938-00.10.1938: served with the RAD
00.11.1938: entered the Luftwaffe and began training with Fl.Ausb. Rgt. 61
07.11.1938: Fahnenjunker, Fl.Ausb.Rgt. Oschatz
00.03.1939: transferred to LKS Fürstenfeldbruck
00.12.1939: promoted to Fähnrich
00.12.1939: transferred to FFS C Neubrandenburg
00.01.1940: Grosse KFS Tutow
00.01.1940: promoted to Oberfähnrich
20.04.1940: promoted to Leutnant
00.06.1940: BFS 2
00.09.1940: Erg.KGr. 5
01.01.1941: to 2./ LG 1
00.04.1941: with I./ LG 1
21.07.1941: Leutnant, pilot, in 8./ LG 1, WIA in an emergency landing at Piraeus due to enginetrouble with Ju 88 A-5, Werknummer 4251
01.04.1942: promoted to Oberleutnant
11.06.1942: attained his 200th mission
14.06.1942: Oblt., Stab I./ LG 1
24.03.1943: Oblt. in I./LG 1, awarded the Ritterkreuz for successful attacks on enemy shipping
30.03.1943: Oblt., transferred from LG 1 to RLM - Gen.d. Kampfflieger / L In 2
00.08.1943: Staka, 8./ JG 300 after transferring to the Jagdwaffe
23/24.09.1943: Oblt., Staka, 8./ JG 300, WIA - when his Bf 109 G-6 coded '<<+' overturned on landing at Biblis
01.10.1943: promoted to Hauptmann
16.12.1943: Hptm., Stab, I./ JG 300, unhurt - Bf 109 G-6 belly-landed after combat with bombers vic Oldenburg-Bremen
03.02.1944: Hptm., Stab, I./ JG 300
28.05.1944-00.11.1944: Kdr., I./ JG 300
29.06.1944: Hptm., Kdr., Stab I./ JG 300, WIA - when his Bf 109 G-6/U2 coded '<< +' was shot down by P-51s near Lodersleben in the Querfurt area
07.10.1944: Hptm., Stab, I./ JG 300
01.11.1944: promoted to Major
00.11.1944: formed Nachtjagderprobungskommando Me 262 a.k.a. Kommando "Stamp"
00.02.1945: transferred to Stabsstaffel, JG 7 due to unit absorption
07.05.1945: flew his last mission
08.05.1945: US POW
Credited with c.400 combat missions, 5 air victories and with sinking 35,000 GRT of shipping, and heavily damaging 45,000 GRT more and damaging 3 cruisers
00.00.1956: joined the Bundeswehr
00.00.1956-00.00.1962: Presseoffizier at NATO Headquarters, Paris
00.00.1964-00.00.1968: special commissioner for securitymatters of the West German government in the office of the chancellor in Bonn
00.00.1968-00.00.1972: Militärattaché in Ottawa
00.00.1972-00.00.1979: Verteidigungsministerium (Defense Ministry) Bonn und Schule Bad Ems
00.00.1973-00.00.1974: Abteilungsleiter Studien und Übungen der Bundeswehr in Bensberg
30.09.1978: retired as an Oberst i.G.
Credited with more than 300 bomber missions and about 100 fighter missions, sunk 35,000 GRT of shipping, sunk a destroyer and damaged three cruisers, credited with at least one night and one day victories

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Flugzeugführerabzeichen

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:: March 1940

Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:: April 17th, 1941

Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:: April 30th, 1941

Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 in Schwarz

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:: 1941

WIA 21.07.1941

Frontflugspange für Kampfflieger in Gold

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:: September 8th, 1941

Luftwaffe Ehrenpokale für besondere Leistungen im Luftkrieg

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Leutnant (Pilot Officer)
Unit:: Flugzeugführer
Awarded on:: March 2nd, 1942

Deutsches Kreuz in Gold

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Oberleutnant (Flying Officer)
Unit:: 1. Staffel, Lehr-Geschwader 1, Luftwaffe
Awarded on:: August 21st, 1942

Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Oberleutnant (Flying Officer)
Unit:: Flugzeugführer, I. (K) Gruppe, Lehrgeschwader 1
Awarded on:: March 24th, 1943

The following newspaper article (dated 12.04.1943) describes why Stamp received the Knight’s Cross…

“Oberleutnant Stamp has sunk 35000 GRT worth of enemy shipping whilst serving as a bomber pilot.”

By this time Stamp had flown over 200 sorties. His successes against shipping were achieved mostly in the Mediterranean, where he also claimed a destroyer sunk as well as three cruisers damaged by this time.