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RARE LUFTWAFFE and HOFFMAN WARTIME PHOTOS Lot144a - Werner Schröer KC OLS Signed 6 X 4 Wartime Hoffman Portrait Photo LOT136 - Memorial Service Programme For The Life Of Wing Commander Roland Robert Stanford-Tuck DSO DFC (2 Bars) DFC (US). Plus Obituary and copy of the reading from 'The Funeral Oration of Pericles. Good condition Est. £30 - 40 LOT137 - Wing Commander Roland Robert Stanford-Tuck DSO DFC (2 Bars) DFC (US) signed Rare First Edition. 'Fly For Your Life' (Frederick Muller 1956) by Larry Forrester. The classic biography of one of the greatest RAF fighter pilots of WWII. 'Lucky Tuck, or 'The 'immortal Tuck' notched up a score of at least 29 victories in the fighting over Dunquerqe, the Battle of Britain and sweeps over France before being shot down on January 28th 1942 and taken prisoner. P.O.W. in Stalag Luft III and Belaria at the time of The Great Escape. By one of the strange recurring coincidences in his extraordinary life on January 28th 1945 - 4 years to the very day of his capture - he escaped with Polish pilot Zbigniev 'Zbishek' Kustrynski, and reached freedom in Russia. The book is in excellent condition and has a protective cover. The inscription reads: 'To Paul. R.R. Stanford Tuck.' Good condition Est. £150 - 200 LOT138 - Warrant Officer Bobby Bunting DFC RAAF DFC (US) ace with 5 confirmed victories. Typed signed note. The photograph copied by Wt/Off Bunting was taken in France in 1944. Wt/Off Bunting sits on top of his Spitfire with Wt/Off David, also 93 Squadron standing between the propeller. Wt/Off Bunting wrote war poetry, a one-verse example included with LOT. Good condition Est. £30 - 40 LOT139 - Squadron Leader Arthur Hazelton Sager DFC RCAF Ace 6 victories, typed letter with nice content including " Good luck in your search for aces all 283 of them, far too many deserve that title, and I certainly don't! Included in 'Aces High' (1st Edition 1966), the new edition (Grub Street 1994), and the revised edition 1999. Good condition Est. £30 - 40 LOT140 - Dame Felicity Peake (nee HANBURY) MBE. Signature on card. WAAF Assistant Section Officer. On August 30th 1940, she showed "courage" and "devotion when Biggin Hill was attacked and bombed by the Luftwaffe. Posted to London she survived the Blitz and was the first WAAF to be awarded the MBE. Good condition Est. £10 - 15 LOT141 - Brigadier General Charles E. 'Chuck' Yeager USAAF. Signature on card. Shot down over France he escaped with the help of the French Resistance. Became an ace with 5 confirmed victories in one day. Ended the war with 11+ mostly gained in his P51 named 'Glamorous Glen III' after his wife. Post war test Pilot he broke the Sound Barrier and flew for over 60 years. He was immortalised in the book 'The Right Stuff' by Tom Wolfe and portrayed by actor Sam Sheperd on screen in the film of the same name. Good condition Est. £20 - 30 LOT142 - Colonel Clarence 'Bud' Anderson Jr USAAF. Signature on card. Ace with 16 confirmed victories. On February 5, 1944 Bud entered the deadly world of aerial warfare. Flying for nearly a year against the Luftwaffe in battles sometimes involving hundreds of planes he flew 116 missions in his 'Old Crow' P-51 Mustang without ever being hit by enemy aircraft fire. Test pilot after the war. Commanded a squadron of F-86 jets in Korea. In 1970, age 48 he flew 25 combat missions in F-105s in the Vietnam War. Good condition Est. £10 - 15 LOT143 - Commander David Mccampbell USN. Signature on card. Top scoring US Navy fighter pilot of WWII with 34 confirmed victories. First carrier based pilot to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honour received for two actions. June 14, 1944 flying a Hellcat F6F fighter during what became known as the 'Marianas Turkey Shoot,' he sot down 7 Japanese aircraft. October 24, 1944 he shot down 9 Japanese aircraft. Good condition Est. £15 - 20 LOT144 - Colonel Jefferson Deblanc USMC. Signature on card. Ace with 9 confirmed victories. Medal of Honor winner. Good condition Est. £15 - 20 RARE LUFTWAFFE and HOFFMAN WARTIME PHOTOS LOT144a - Werner Schröer KC OLS signed 6 x 4 wartime Hoffman portrait photo. 114 victories Good condition Est. £200 - 300 LOT144b - Major Hans "Assi" Hahn KC OL signed 6 x 4 wartime Hoffman portrait photo. Hahn (1914 - 1982) was a flying ace with 108 victories and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Good condition Est. £200 - 300 LOT144c - Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert KC OL S signed 6 x 4 wartime Hoffman portrait photo. 174 victories, plus 16 armoured vehicles and 6 locomotives. Good condition Est. £200 - 300 LOT144d - Herbert Ihlefeld KC OL S signed 6 x 4 wartime Hoffman portrait photo. 132 victories. Good condition Est. £200 - 300 LOT144e - Hauptmann Hermann-Friedrich "Jupp" Joppien signed 6 x 4 wartime Hoffman portrait photo. (19 July 1912 – 28 August 1941). 70 victories. Good condition Est. £365 - 500 LOT144f - Major Wilhelm Balthasar KC OL signed 6 x 4 wartime Hoffman portrait photo. (2 February 1914 – 3 July 1941). 47 victories at the time of his death. Good condition Est. £415 - 520 LOT144g - Egon "Connie" Mayer KC OL S signed 6 x 4 wartime Hoffman portrait photo. (born 19 August 1917, Konstanz – killed in action 2 March 1944. 102 victories. Good condition Est. £445 - 550 LOT144h - Hartmann Grasser KC OL signed 6 x 4 wartime Hoffman portrait photo. 103 victories. Good condition Est. £200 - 300 LOT144i - Wolf-Dietrich "Fürst" Wilcke signed 6 x 4 wartime photo. Killed in 1944 with 162 victories. Good condition Est. £365 - 500 LOT144j - Hans Beisswenger signed 6 x 4 wartime photo. (1916 – 1943) 152 victories. Good condition Est. £200 - 300 LOT144k - Colonel Hermann Graf KC OL SD signed wartime 6x4 Hoffman photo. 212 victories. Good condition Est. £195 - 300 LOT144l - Very Rare Coloured Photo Dual of Eagles Personally Signed by 30 Luftwaffe pilots. Rolf Pingel was credited with 28 victories in 550 combat missions, including 200 flown during the Spanish Civil War. Included in his total are six victories gained during the Spanish Civil War. All his World War 2 victories were recorded over the Western front. Flew in the Battle of Britain. Gunther Seeger was credited with 56 victories in 504 missions. All his victories were recorded over the Western front and include eight four-engine bombers. Flew in the Battle of Britain. Martin Becker flew 83 nightfighting missions, in which he shot down 58 enemy aircraft, mostly four-engine bombers. Heinz Marquardt achieved 121 aerial victories in 320 combat missions. In addition he claimed 16 victories that remained unconfirmed. but one of his victories were claimed over the Eastern Front and include at least 27 Il-2 Sturmovik ground-attack aircraft. Steff Litjens was credited with 38 victories in 444 missions. He recorded 17 victories over the Eastern front. Of his 21 Western front victories, five were four-engined bombers. Bruno Stolle flew 271 combat missions and shot down 35 enemy aircraft on the Western Front including three four-engine bombers and 19 Spitfires. Flew in the Battle of Britain. Helmut Rüffler was credited with 88 victories in 690 missions. He claimed a further 10 victories that were not confirmed. He recorded 76 victories over the Eastern front. Of his 12 victories recorded over the Western front, eight were four-engine bombers. Wilhelm Reinert, KC. OL. with Swords, over 700 missions, 174 victories. Otto Schultz Total of 73 victories, 40 of which scored on the Eastern Front and 8 four engined bombers. Over 800 missions. Peter Düttmann was a World War II Luftwaffe flying ace. He achieved 152 kills in 398 sorties. All of his victories were scored against Soviet opposition on the Eastern Front flying the Messerschmitt Bf 109. Ludwig Meister is credited with 39 victories. 38 of his victories were scored at night. Heinz Ewald reached 84 victories in 395 combat missions, 82 (plus 15 unconfirmed), on the Eastern Front, including 14 Il-2 Sturmoviks. He was held as a Prisoner of War at Fürstenfeldbruck Lager from 8 May until 22 June 1945. Lt Leo Schuhmacher ZG76, 1 & 44. 23 Victories, Sgt Walter Loos JG3,301 &300, 38 Victories. Otto Schultz Total of 73 victories, 40 of which scored on the Eastern Front and 8 four engined bombers. Over 800 missions. Adolf Glunz, Knight’s Cross with .
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