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 Chris Lent *Signature Value : £25 | Chris Lent is the nephew of Major Helmut Lent - Germany's second highest scoring night fighter Ace with 102 night victories and 11 day victories making his total 113. He died on 7th October 1944 following a flying accident 2 days earlier. Major Lent was posthumously promoted to the rank of Oberst. |
  Hauptman Walter Briegleb *Signature Value : £50 | Born April 30th 1923. Luftwaffe pilot flying Ju88s NJG2, NJG3. Received Iron Cross Second Class and First Class and the German Cross in Gold. The 10./NJG 3 Captain Olt. Walter Briegleb had 25 victories including the following Lancaster : Lancaster Mark III, PB 118 'Q' from 1654 Heavy Conversion Unit, RAF Wigsley near Lincoln was on a night exercise practice bombing over the Bassingham ranges between Lincoln and Newark close to the A46 Fosse Way. This crew had never been on 'Ops'. They saw one aircraft shot down in flames. The rear gunner then saw a Ju 88 who kept following the Lancaster until he gave the aircraft a burst of fire to put him off. Complying with instructions known as 'Scram' the pilot of the Lancaster headed in a Westerly direction. Five minutes later the mid upper gunner spotted another Ju88 but evaded any damage. Not long after, over Worksop, the Lancaster was hit on the starboard engine inner, the attacker for some reason or other could not be seen, after a second burst of fire the aircraft was out of control. The Skipper gave the order to bale out in the vicinity of Warsop Windmill. The blazing aircraft plunged, fortunately, into a field near the railway embankment at Sookholme, near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Six of the seven crew survived, the mid upper gunner (believed to be Flt Sgt Joseph William Camm RAFVR (1452103)) was killed, landing in the Spion Kop region. The Ranby family cared for them. Eddy Moss, deceased, a Gents Hairdresser on Sherwood Street was an A.R.P. Warden at the time and saw the Lancaster coming down in flames. Lancaster PB118 was one of two claims in Operation Gisella (a Luftwaffe night-fighter intruder sortie) by Oberleutnant Walter Briegleb during the night of 3/4 March 1945. He claimed to have shot down a 4-engined aircraft at 00:36 hours South of Waddington, and another 4-engined plane at 00:56 hours 40 km (25 NM) W of Lincoln - PB118 was probably the latter. During the Autumn OF 1944 Briegleb flew the ju 88 G-6: 4R+BR out of Kassel-Rothwestern, Germany. |
  Leutnant Fritz Rumpelhardt (deceased) *Signature Value : £60 | From 1942 as an Unteroffizier, Fritz Rumpelhardt was radio operator to Heinz Wolfgang Schnaufer with NJG1 and NJG4. He participated in 100 night fighter victories with Schnaufer, and was the most successful night fighter radio-operator in the Luftwaffe. Fritz Rumpelhardt flew over 130 combat missions and was awarded the Knight's Cross in July 1944, and was nominated for the Oak Leaves in March 1945. Fritz Rumpelhardt passed away on 20th January 2011. |
 Leutnant Herbert Altner *Signature Value : £50 | German night-fighter Ace who claimed at least 25 victories with NJ3, NJ5 and finally with 10./NJG11. He has two recorded victories with NJG3, on 19th August 1942 and 19th February 1943, before he scored the bulk of his victories with NJG5, beginning with a Flying Fortress on 9th October 1943. By 7th February 1945 when he claimed his last victory with NJG5, he had racked up a score of 24. On 3rd April 1945 he was flying Me262B-1a/U1 111980 Red 12 of 10./NJG11 when he claimed his final victory - a Mosquito over Berlin. |
 Leutnant Karl Dorschen *Signature Value : £45 | Pilot with II./NJG101, IV./NJG6. Awarded the Iron Cross Second Class and First Class and the Front-Line Clasp in Bronze. He scored 8 victories. |
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