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  Feldwebel Heinz Radlauer *Signature Value : £45 Editions signed : Signed limited edition of 350 prints. Limited edition of 25 artist proofs. Kursk edition print. Limited edition of 35 remarques. Signed limited edition print. Signed limited edition of 350 prints. **Signed limited edition of 350 prints. (2 prints reduced to clear) | Radlauer, Heinz (Feldwebel Heinz Radlauer) Heinz Radlauer learnt to fly gliders in 1940, aged 17, and joined the Luftwaffe in August 1941. After Fighter School, in June 1944 he was posted to join JG51 Molders then fighting on the Eastern Front near Minsk, scoring his first victory in October of that year. Heinz Radlauer fleew the Bf109G, the Fw190A, and at the end of the war the Fw190D, by which time he had notched up over 100 combat missions, flying his last combat mission on 30th April 1945. Credited with 15 air victories, all on the Eastern Front, he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class. |
  Feldwebel Erich Brunotte (deceased) Died : 2023 *Signature Value : £60 Editions signed : Signed limited edition of 350 prints. Limited edition of 25 artist proofs. Kursk edition print. Limited edition of 35 remarques. Signed limited edition print. Signed limited edition of 350 prints. **Signed limited edition of 350 prints. (2 prints reduced to clear) | Brunotte, Erich (Feldwebel Erich Brunotte (deceased)) Born in 1923, Erich Brunotte joined the Luftwaffe and started immediate pilot training in June 1941. He flew on the Eastern Front with 1./Gruppe Nauhaufklarungs Geschwader 102, and later transferred to fly with IV./Jagdgeswader 51 Molders, in the 13th Staffel. Promoted to Unteroffizier in December 1944, and Feldwebel in April 1945, he flew most marks of the Bf109, and the Fw190. His very last combat mission was in the Fw Dora 9 on 3rd May 1945 at Flensburg in northen Germany. Died January 19th 2023 in Hamm, Germany. |
  Unteroffizier Johannes Oesterhelt *Signature Value : £50 Editions signed : Limited edition of 25 artist proofs. Kursk edition print. Limited edition of 35 remarques. | Oesterhelt, Johannes (Unteroffizier Johannes Oesterhelt) Born in August 1925, Johannes Oesterhelt joined the Luftwaffe in July 1943 and was one of the youngest pilots to fly with JG51 Molders. Joining IV./JG51 he flew his first combat mission in January 1945, aged 19, flying with the 13th Staffel against the advancing Russians in the area around the northern city of Danzig, and protecting the retreating German army. He flew against Russian II-2s, Yak-3s, Airacobras, and also against Russian tanks. He scored 2 confirmed air victories before the war ended. |
  SS Sturmann Ernst Wilhelm Kufner *Signature Value : £45 Editions signed : Limited edition of 25 artist proofs. Kursk edition print. Limited edition of 35 remarques. | Kufner, Ernst Wilhelm (SS Sturmann Ernst Wilhelm Kufner) Born in January 1925, Ernst Wilhelm Kufner joined the army on 30th April 1943, becoming a Tiger tank commander in the SS Panzer divisions. He fought on the Western Front throughout the D-Day landings and the subsequent battle for Normandy, later at the hard fought Battle of the Bulge, in Hungary and Austria. |
  SS Oberscharfuhrer Werner Wendt (deceased) Died : 2005 *Signature Value : £60 Editions signed : Limited edition of 25 artist proofs. Kursk edition print. Limited edition of 35 remarques. | Wendt, Werner (SS Oberscharfuhrer Werner Wendt (deceased)) Werner Wendt was born in Naugard / Pommern, today in Poland, in 1921. He joined the ,military at the outbreak of war in September 1939, and served first with an SS Artillery Regiment during the Battle of France3. In August 1940 he joined the SS Artillery Regiment Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler and fought in the Yugoslavian and Greek campaigns. Becoming a Tiger tank commander, he took part in the invasion of Russia, and in 1943 fought in a Tiger at the Battle of Kursk during Operation Citadel. Later in 1943 he fought in Italy, and then in 1944 at the Battle of Normandy, followed in December of that year by the Battle of the Bulge. Werner Wendt was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class. He died on 26th May 2005. |
  Gerhard Fischer (deceased) Died : 2013 *Signature Value : £65 Editions signed : Knights Cross signature edition of 40 prints from the edition of 50 artist special reserve prints. | Fischer, Gerhard (Gerhard Fischer (deceased)) World War Two Panzer tank Ace with 102 tank victories. Chief of the 8./Panzer-Regiment 2, he took part in the Battle of France, Second Battle of Kharkov, Operation Winter Storm, Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive, First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive, and Operation Spring Awakening. He received the Knights Cross for actions on 28th December 1943. He was also a recipient of the Panzer Badge and German Cross in Gold. Later, a member of the Bundeswehr from 1959 to 1972. Died in 2013. |
  Albert Kerscher (deceased) Died : 2011 *Signature Value : £80 Editions signed : Knights Cross signature edition of 40 prints from the edition of 50 artist special reserve prints. | Kerscher, Albert (Albert Kerscher (deceased)) German Army - Knights Cross with Oak Leaves. Oberfeldwebel Albert Kerscher was, like Otto Carius, a panzer ace from schwere Panzer Abteilung 502. He achieved his 100th kill in defending the Neuhauser Forest near Pillau, East Prussia in April 1945. On 22nd July 1944, 1st Lieutenant Otto Carius with his company of eight Tigers advanced towards the village on Malinava (northern suburb of Dunaburg) in order to halt the Russian advance. Carius and Kerscher took a Kubelwagen in order to check if the village was already in Russian hands. They discovered that Malinava had already been taken by the enemy. Carius recognised that the Russian tanks in the village were only advance troops waiting for the main force to arrive. He decided to recapture the village before the arrival of more Russian tanks. Carius returned to his company for briefing and explained his plan to take the village. He decided to attack the village with only two Tigers because there was only one road leading to the village and it meant very risky business. Six Tigers remained in the reserve while the Tigers of Carius and Kerscher moved towards the village of Malinava. Speed was the essence of the plan to take the Russians by surprise and immobilise their tanks. When they were about to enter the village, they could see two T-34/85 tanks rotating their turrets in their direction. Immediately Kerscher, following Carius at about 150 metres, fired two shots in rapid succession, and destroyed the two enemy tanks. This was the first time that Carius had encountered one of the latest JS-1 heavy tanks. The silhouette of the new heavy Russian tank was somewhat similar to that of the Tiger II, and Carius got confused at first but after a little hesitation, ordered his crew to fire at once, and the JS-1 burst into flames. Afterwards they realised that the entire battle was over in about twenty minutes. In such a short time, the two Tigers of Carius and Kerscher had knocked out 17 Russian tanks including the new JS-1. The Russians were taken by surprise and their quick and accurate perception of the situation were the main factors that led the two Tigers to victory. The achievement of Carius and Kerscher at Malinava is on the same level as the famous action of Michael Wittmann at Villers Bocage. He ended the war with a total score of 107. Albert Kerscher passed away on 12th June 2011. |
  Oberstleutnant Alfred Rubbel (deceased) Died : 2013 *Signature Value : £60 Editions signed : Knights Cross signature edition of 40 prints from the edition of 50 artist special reserve prints. | Rubbel, Alfred (Oberstleutnant Alfred Rubbel (deceased)) Alfred Rubbel was born in Tilsit on June 28, 1921, and volunteered for the Wehrmacht at the age of eighteen. After his basic training in the infantry replacement regiment 21 and his transfer to the armoured weapon, Alfred Rubbel began the Russian campaign on 22nd June 1942 in the 9th Panzer Regiment 29 of the 12th Panzer Division. First as a charge guard in the chief battalion, then as a guardsman, he experienced the rapid advance of the Army Group to the east. In the fighting around Leningrad on September 3rd, 1941, wounded by grenade splinters, he was transferred to the homeland. In January 1942 he returned to his unit, he took part in the fighting at the Volkhov. After refreshing and rebuilding his company in Silesia, he returned to Panzer Regiment 4 with the long-handled cannon to the Eastern Front. As an unofficial and tank commander, his path led him on a long Panzer raid to the West Caucasus, where the battles in Eastern Caucasus were connected between September and December 1942. In December 1942, he and his comrades in Putlos and Paderborn began the conversion to Panzer VI Tiger. Went to 503th Panzer Division 503, and set in the railway transport in the direction of Rostov, he took part in the retreat to the Dnieper and the battle for the Kessel of Cherkassy as a Panzer commander at Operation Zitadelle, the largest tank battle of the Second World War. After officers' training courses in Ohrdruf and Krampnitz in December 1944, he moved to the 3rd Panzer Division 503, he fought in the King (Tiger II) in Hungary and Austria. At the end of the war, lieutenant of the reserve Alfred Rubbel can look back on a total balance of 57 tank victories in 79 Panzer battles on 81 deployments in the tank and 41 months on the front. He was awarded the Iron Cross I and II. Rubbel was a close friend of Kurt Knispel, a fellow tank commander of Pz Abt 503 and top-scoring Panzer Ace. |
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