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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 flew 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 30 April 1945. Credited with
15 air victories, all on
the Eastern Front, he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st &2nd
Class.
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Erich Brunotte
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
Nahaufklärungs-
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 3 May 1945 at Flensburg in northern
Germany.
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