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PostPosted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 2:38 pm 
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Hello,

Not sure which forum to post this request, moderators please move at your discretion.

I have a WW2 Veteran friend who lives close buy, still alive and well at age 92. He was one of the 168 Allied Airman at Buchenwald. He was a Canadian, RCAF WAG on a Halifax shot down June 8, 1944.
He received word the other day that he was likely shot down by Kurt FLADRICH.

M friend is in touch with his contacts in German to see if this man is still alive.
He is also looking for a photo of him.

Done some internet research, came up empty on the above.

Couldn't think of a better place for information that what I see shared here.

Many thanks,
Dave

P.S. The Veteran in question is heading back overseas to Buchenwald this April for another Anniversary event. He would like if they could meet up.


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A better place would be here:

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 4:22 am 
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JustPlaneDave! wrote:
if this man is still alive.


Apparently died: 21.01.1995

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Born: 11.01.1918
Oct. 1941 was a Leutnant in NJ-Schule Schleissheim
01.11.41 posted to I./NJG 1
02.05.42 appointed Adjutant of III./NJG 4 by which time he was an Oberleutnant
01.09.42 appointed Staffelkapitän of 9./NJG 4
Summer 1943 was attached to Stab NJG 1
Died: 21.01.1995


source
http://disc.yourwebapps.com/Indices/169401.html

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FLADRICH, Kurt.
01.09.42 Oblt., Staka 9./NJG 4
01.04.43 in III./NJG 4, promo to Hptm.
19.04.44 Hptm. in 9./NJG 4.


A partial list of his claims:

29.08.42 Oblt. Kurt Fladrich Stab III./NJG 4 Hampden £ 1 km. S. Lierre: 2.100 m. 01.52 hours
11.04.43 Oblt. Kurt Fladrich 9./NJG 4 Lancaster £ 1 km. N. illegible 02.28 hours
15.04.43 Oblt. Kurt Fladrich 9./NJG 4 Stirling £ 12 km. E. Reims: 3.300 m. 01.59 hours
17.04.43 Oblt. Kurt Fladrich 9./NJG 4 Wellington £ E. Sept Meules : 4.000 m. 02.13 hours
31.08.43 Hptm. Kurt Fladrich 9./NJG 4 Stirling £ Dorphen: 4.200-3.500 m. 04.01 hours
20.12.43 Hptm. Kurt Fladrich 9./NJG 4 Halifax £ 10 km. W. Rhenen: 4.200 m. 20.29 hours
11.04.44 Hptm. Kurt Fladrich 9./NJG 4 Halifax £ 1 km. N. Lechelle: 3.500 m. 00.01 hours
11.04.44 Hptm. Kurt Fladrich 9./NJG 4 Halifax £ Ercheu: 3.600 m. 00.27 hours
08.06.44 Hptm. Kurt Fladrich 9./NJG 4 Halifax £ UD-8.9 at 1.500 m. [Meulan-les-Mureaux] 01.26 hours
25.06.44 Hptm. Kurt Fladrich 9./NJG 4 Lancaster £ QE-QD at 2.300 m. [Doullens-Abbeville] 00.44 hours
19.07.44 Hptm. Kurt Fladrich 9./NJG 4 4-mot. Flzg. £ 05 Ost S/UF at 2.600 m. [Ermenonville] 01.04 hours
12.09.44 Hptm. Kurt Fladrich 9./NJG 4 4-mot. Flzg. £ RP-RO at 4.200 m. [Hunsrück] 00.21 hours


Source:
http://www.cieldegloire.com/njg_004.php

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