Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
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Prince Heinrich Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was the third highest scoring ace of night-fighters in the Luftwaffe during World War Two.
Serving from mid 1941 until his death in 1944, Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was an exponent of the Ju 88C-6 nightfighter; at one point he was the Gruppenkommander of part of NJG 5 on the Eastern Front, using two aircraft equipped with FuG 202 Lichtenstein B/C or FuG 212 Lichtenstein C-1: C9+AE and a streamlined, stripped aircraft, C9+DE.
He was killed on January 21, 1944, after shooting down four RAF bombers, when his aircraft R4+XM an aircraft taken over when his own was under repair, was hit either by return fire or an RAF nightfighter; he ordered his crew to bail out, which they did; the aircraft hit hard and broke up on landing and he was apparently thrown clear, being killed by the impact. His score at that time was 83, on both Eastern (29 Soviet) and Western fronts (54).
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