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词条 Walther Dahl
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  1. World War II

  2. Post World War II

  3. Works

  4. Awards

  5. References

     Citations  Bibliography 

  6. External links

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Walther Dahl (27 March 1916 – 25 November 1985) was a German pilot and a fighter ace during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. Dahl claimed some 128 enemy aircraft shot down in 678 missions.{{sfn|Spick|1996|p=230}}

World War II

Dahl was born on 27 March 1916 in Lug near Bad Bergzabern, son of a school teacher who was killed in action in 1918 in World War I. Dahl joined the military service in October 1935, and transferred to the Luftwaffe in 1938.{{sfn|Stockert|2008|p=40}} In May 1941 Dahl was posted to Jagdgeschwader 3 (JG 3—3rd Fighter Wing) and claimed his first victory on 22 June during the first day of the invasion of the Soviet Union.

On 21 May 1944, Dahl was appointed commander of Jagdgeschwader zur besonderen Verwendung (JG z.b.V.—a special purpose fighter wing). He led the unit until taking command of Jagdgeschwader 300 (JG 300—300th Fighter Wing) on 27 June 1944. Dahl set up his Geschwaderstab (headquarters unit) at Ansbach, planning combined operations with JG 3 "Udet".{{sfn|Lorant|Goyat|2005|p=206}}

On 7 July 1944, a force of 1,129 B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Eighth Air Force set out from England to bomb aircraft factories in the Leipzig area and the synthetic oil plants at Boehlen, Leuna-Merseburg and Lützkendorf. This force was divided into three prongs. The first group consisted of 373 B-24s, the second force of the 3rd Bomb Division was made up of 303 B-17s, and the third wave was made up of 450 B-17s. A series of accidents at the start of the mission allowed the Luftwaffe to focus their attacks on the B-24 force.{{sfn|Lorant|Goyat|2005|p=211}} This formation was intercepted by a German Gefechtsverband consisting of IV.(Sturm) Gruppe Jagdgeschwader 3 escorted by two Gruppen of Bf 109s from JG 300 led by Dahl. Dahl drove the attack to point-blank range behind the Liberators of the 492nd Bomb Group before opening fire. 492nd Bomb Group was temporarily without fighter cover. Within about a minute the entire squadron of twelve B-24s had been annihilated. The Germans claimed 28 USAAF 2nd Air Division B-24s that day and were credited with at least 21.{{sfn|Caldwell|Muller|2007|p=216}} The majority to the Sturmgruppe attack, IV./JG 3 lost nine fighters shot down and three more suffered damage and made crash landings; five of the unit's pilots were killed.[1]{{sfn|Weal|1996|p=78}} On this mission, Dahl was credited with his 72nd aerial victory, a B-24 shot down in the vicinity of Quedlinburg.{{sfn|Lorant|Goyat|2005|p=213}}

On 13 September, Dahl claimed to have brought down a B-17 four-engined bomber by ramming according to his own account. Lorant and Goyat, the historians of JG 300, found no evidence of a corresponding loss in US archives.{{sfn|Lorant|Goyat|2005|p=325}}

On 26 January 1945, Hermann Göring appointed him Inspekteur der Tagjäger (Inspector of the Day Fighters). Despite his promotion, Dahl continued to fly operationally. On 28 February 1945, Dahl was credited with his 100th aerial victory. He was the 98th Luftwaffe pilot to achieve the century mark.{{sfn|Obermaier|1989|p=243}}

Dahl ended the war flying the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter with III./Ergänzungs-Jagdgeschwader 2 (a supplementary fighter unit). On 27 March 1945,{{sfn|Stockert|2008|p=43}} Dahl claimed two P-47 Thunderbolt fighter kills.{{sfn|Morgan|Weal|1998|p=21}} His 129th and last victory was a USAAF P-51 Mustang near Dillingen an der Donau on 26 April 1945. Dahl was promoted to Oberst (colonel) on 30 April 1945. He was taken prisoner of war by US forces in Bavaria at the end of World War II in Europe.{{sfn|Stockert|2008|p=43}}

Post World War II

Following the war, Dahl became a member of the Deutsche Reichspartei (DRP—German Reich Party){{sfn|Jenke|1967|p=128}} In the West German federal election of 1961 he unsuccessfully ran as a candidate for the DRP.{{sfn|Frederik|1966|p=161}} On 8 May 1961, Dahl founded the "Reichsverband der Soldaten" (lit. "Reich Association of Soldiers").{{sfn|Jaschke|2013|p=90}} Dahl was married to Regina Dahl, a journalist with the National Zeitung, a weekly extreme right newspaper published by Gerhard Frey. Dahl was a spokesman for the German People's Union, a nationalist political party founded by Frey. In 2004, Frey and Hajo Herrmann published an abstract of Dahl's biography in the book Helden der Wehrmacht – Unsterbliche deutsche Soldaten [Heroes of the Wehrmacht – Immortal German soldiers]. This publication was classified as a far-right wing publication by Claudia Fröhlich and Horst-Alfred Heinrich.{{sfn|Fröhlich|Heinrich|2004|p=134}} Dahl died on 25 November 1985 of heart failure in Heidelberg.{{sfn|Stockert|2008|p=43}}

Works

  • Rammjäger: Bericht über seine Kriegserlebnisse 1943 bis 1945 (in German). {{illm|Pour le Mérite Verlag|de|Pour le Mérite Verlag}} {{ISBN|3-932381-01-7}} (2000).

Awards

  • Ehrenpokal der Luftwaffe (23 December 1941){{sfn|Obermaier|1989|p=72}}
  • German Cross in Gold on 2 December 1942 as Oberleutnant in the Stab/JG 3{{sfn|Patzwall|Scherzer|2001|p=77}}
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
    • Knight's Cross on 11 March 1944 as Major and Gruppenkommandeur of the III./JG 3 "Udet"{{sfn|Scherzer|2007|p=264}}
    • Oak Leaves on 1 February 1945 as Major and Geschwaderkommodore of JG 300{{sfn|Scherzer|2007|p=264}}

References

Citations

1. ^Dahl 2000, pp. 46–66

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External links

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  • {{Cite web |work= Walther Dahl - his aircraft and his (inflated) claims |title=Walther Dahl |url=http://falkeeins.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/walter-dahl-defence-of-reich-jg-300-his.html|accessdate=12 December 2012}}
{{s-start}}{{s-mil}}{{succession box
| before = Major Gerhard Michalski
| after = Major Gerhard Schöpfel
| title = Commander of Jagdgeschwader z.b.V.
| years = 20 May 1944 – 6 June 1944
}}{{succession box
| before = Oberstleutnant Kurd Kettner
| after = Major Kurd Peters
| title = Commander of Jagdgeschwader 300
| years = 27 June 1944 – 26 January 1945
}}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{Subject bar
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| portal2=Biography
| portal3=Military of Germany
| portal4=World War II
}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Dahl, Walther}}

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