Date of birth:

March 11th, 1913 (Schrimm/Posen, Germany)

Date of death:

March 23rd, 1944 (Schöppenstedt/Lower Saxony, Germany)

Buried on:

German War Cemetery Mönchengladbach-Hardt

Nationality:

German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke flew a total of 732 missions and achieved a total of 162 aerial victories (of 25 were in the west and 4 were four-engined bombers).

01.04.1934: Fahnenjunker, Artillerie-Regiment 6 in Minden
01.10.1934: Fähnrich, Kriegsschule in Dresden
01.11.1935: Oberfähnrich, transferred to the Luftwaffe
20.04.1936: promoted to Leutnant, flight school in Perleberg
15.10.1936: Jagdgeschwader 132 "Richthofen"
00.06.1937: fighter pilot instructor, Jagdfliegerschule in Werneuchen
00.03.1939: 1. Staffel, Jagdgruppe 88 - J/88, Legion Condor
01.07.1939: Oberleutnant, transferred from I. of J/88 Legion Condor to III./ JG 53
07.09.1939: Oberleutnant, 3. Staffel, JG 53, first victory, a French Potez 630, a twin-engined fighter, near Völklingen
18.09.1939-18.05.1940: Olt, Staka, 7. Staffel, JG 53
11.03.1940: shot down another Potez at an altitude of 7,000 meters (23,000 feet) near the "three-nations-corner" north of Metz
25.03.1940: Olt, Staka, 7. Staffel, JG 53, his third victory, a Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 at 4,000 m (13,000 ft) over Diedenhofen
18.05.1940-30.06.1940: Oberleutnant, Staka, 7. Staffel, JG 53, shot down by French Curtiss P-36 Hawk fighter flown by sous lieutenant Camille Plubeau near Rethel and POW
01.07.1940: promoted to Hauptmann and reappointed Staka, 7. Staffel, JG 53
13.08.1940: Gruppenkommandeur, III. Gruppe, JG 53
30.08.1940: destroyed a barrage balloon and gained his fourth victory, a Supermarine Spitfire in the vicinity of Dover
01.09.1940: fifth victory, a Hawker Hurricane, south of London
11.09.1940: sixth victory, probably a Fairey Swordfish biplane over the Channel between Dover and Calais
15.09.1940: a Hurricane
17.09.1940: his ninth victory, another Hurricane
20.09.1940: his tenth victory, again a Hurricane in the London area
30.09.1940: two more victories to bring his total to 12
10.10.1940: 13th victory
22.06.1941: 7. Staffel, III. Gruppe, JG 53, shot down three Polikarpov I-15 biplane at Alytus and Oranji Soviet airfields and achieved another victory during a Stuka escort mission to Grodno and a fifth victory on that day during an attack on Soviet airfields
25.06.1941: slightly WIA when Bf 109 F-2 coded '<<+ I' collided with another aircraft during take-off at Wilna
30.06.1941: 19th victory, flying a combat air patrol into the Barysaw area
01.07.1941: formed the "Gefechtsverband Wilcke"
09.07.1941: destroyed a Petlyakov Pe-2 ground attack aircraft
25.07.1941: another victory claimed during fighter escort missions in the Vyazma area
29.07.1941: another victory claimed in the Dukhovshchina area
30.07.1941: a Polikarpov I-180 fighter at Yartsevo-Bely
23.08.1941: 2 victories claimed in the Velikiye Luki area
02.12.1941: with III. Gruppe, JG 53, deployed in Catania in Sicily
06.12.1941: ordered to move to Timimi in Libya
11.12.1941: 34th aerial victory during a fighter escort mission for Junkers Ju 88 bombers attacking Bir Hakeim
17.12.1941: relocated back to Sicily for operations in the siege of Malta
02.04.1942: 35th victory, a Spitfire fighter
22.04.1942: 36th, a Hurricane (Z4011) "B" of No. 185 Squadron flown by Pilot Officer "Sonny" Ormrod
12.05.1942: a Spitfire
18.05.1942: transferred to Jagdgeschwader 3 "Udet"
13.06.1942: 39th victory, a Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3 fighter
22.06.1942: a LaGG-3
24.06.1942: a LaGG-3 and a Polikarpov R-5 reconnaissance bomber
03.07.1942: three Douglas Boston medium bombers
04.07.1942: two LaGG-3s and another Boston
06.07.1942: a Bell P-39 Airacobra, a LaGG-3, an R-5 and three Hurricanes
09.07.1942: two Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik ground-attack aircraft
10.07.1942: four more Bostons
11.07.1942: another R-5 and two Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-1 fighters
12.07.1942: an R-5 and two LaGG-3s
18.07.1942: another LaGG-3
24.07.1942: a Polikarpov I-153 biplane fighter
26.07.1942: two Hurricanes and two Pe-2s
27.07.1942: a LaGG-3
28.07.1942: a LaGG-3
05.08.1942: a Sukhoi Su-2 light bomber
06.08.1942: two LaGG-3s
09.08.1942: 79th air victory
11.08.1942: Geschwaderkommodore, Jagdgeschwader 3 "Udet"
12.08.1942: 80th victory
13.08.1942: claimed 2 victories
17.08.1942: 1 victory
20.08.1942: 3 victories
23.08.1942: 2 victories
26.08.1942: a Yakovlev Yak-7 fighter and 2 others from unknown types
28.08.1942: 1 victory
30.08.1942: 1 victory
31.08.1942: 4 victories
03.09.1942: 2 victories
06.09.1942: 2 victories achieving 100th victory as 20th pilot
22.09.1942: achieved 116 aerial victories
01.11.1942: achieved 135 air victories
17.12.1942: fourth German fighter pilot to achieve 150 aerial victories in combat
28.12.1942: a Yak-1 although he was banned from flying
05.01.1943: downed an aircraft of unknown type although he was banned from flying
01.02.1943: promoted to Oberstleutnant
00.03.1943: led Geschwaderstab, II. and III. Gruppe during operations against the Kuban bridgehead as part of the IV. Fliegerkorps
00.05.1943: Geschwaderstab, returned to München-Gladbach
01.12.1943: promoted to Oberst, Kdr, JG 3 "Udet", still banned from flying
10.02.1944: 157th victory, a Lockheed P-38 Lightning
24.02.1944: 158th, a Consolidated B-24 Liberator
04.03.1944: two Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers
06.03.1944: his Bf 109G-6 was crippled in aerial combat and he made an emergency landing at Neuruppin
23.03.1944: downed his 161st and his last 162nd, a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber and a North American P-51 Mustang fighter but was then shot down in his Bf 109G-6 Werknummer 160.613 coded 'Black<< + -' near Schöppenstedt by Captain Don Gentile and Captain John Trevor Godfrey of the 4th Fighter Group

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