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Staub, Josef

Nationality:
German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Biography

On the night of 8/9 August 1941, Olt Robert-Ludwig Becker and his radio operator (Bordfunker) Josef Staub, also became the first Luftwaffe night fighter crew to intercept an enemy bomber using airborne radar.
Flying Dornier Do 215 B-5 "G9+OM" equipped with the FuG 202 Lichtenstein B/C radar, they tracked and claimed another Wellington bomber shot down. The aircraft shot down was Wellington T2625 GR-B which crashed near Bunde.

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Feldwebel (Sergeant)
Unit:
12./Nachtjagd-Geschwader 1
Awarded on:
January 28th, 1943
Deutsches Kreuz in Gold

Sources

  • - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht

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