2. Unfortunately, he's not Rudel but hauptmann Hartmut Schairer
Below interesting info from Portugal website about Luftwaffe (translated thanks to Google
):" Born on 16 September 1916 in the locality of Nagold (Black Forest), Germany, Hartmut Schairer began his military career by joining the Kriegsmarine in 1936 as Fähnrich. However, in the same year he was transferred to the Luftwaffe and promoted to Leutnant.
After passing the pilot training, he was assigned to serve with the 7./St.G 1 (7th Staffel of the Stuka-geschwader 1), unit with which he was at the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. Schairer took part the French Campaign (May / June 1940), the operations on the English Channel and the Battle of Britain.
The following year he would conduct missions during the Crete invasion (May 1941), attacks on Malta and North Africa, receiving credit for the sinking of one destroyer and four supply ships, as well as damaging six other vessels.
Appointed Staffelkapitän of 7/St.G 1 at the beginning of Operation Barbarrossa, the Oberleutnant Schairer would distinguish himself as both pilot and flight leader, for which he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on August 30, 1941 , after running more than 150 combat missions.
On July 19, 1942, after an attack on Soviet tanks, Schairer was killed in action when his Junkers Ju87 Stuka caught fire and fell from an altitude of 400m near Staraya-Russa because of the damage suffered. Along with him, also his faithful Bordfunker, the Oberfeldwebel Heinz Bevernis, who would receive the Knight's Cross posthumously - the first Stuka radio operator to receive this honor, died.
Upon his death, Hauptmann Hartmut Schairer had executed a total of 562 combat missions with the Junkers Ju87."
http://www.luftwaffe39-45.historia.nom. ... hairer.htm
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