Awarded for further individual and command achievements during operations at Kertsch, Sevastopol and the Caucasus. By this time he had flown over 600 sorties. A particularly notable success took place on the 12.06.1942 when he destroyed an ammunition train along the Kharkov-Kupyansk railway (about 60 km ESE of Kharkov itself).
118th Award.
Awarded for his flying over 700 sorties as well as the great successes of his Gruppe at Voronezh, Rostov, along the Don and at Stalingrad.
24th Award.